weasy

comparative more weasy · superlative most weasy

1. alternativeAlternative form of wheezy.

   A little, weazy, shaky laugh, ending with a cough.

   1876, Joyce Emmerson P. Muddock, As the shadows fall, volume 1, page 101

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   The fumes of a long pipe, whose stem she sucked between her toothless gums, occasionally found its way into her weazy lungs.

   1858, Henry John Coke (Hon.), A Will and a Way, volume 1, page 151

   “Thee bee'st for sartan too thick and weazy like for them stairs,” said the miner.

   1860, Anthony Trollope, The three clerks, page 107

   Pellagra is characterized by an erythematous eruption affecting parts chiefly exposed to the sun; it prefers the face and the hands; the skin is swollen, tense, bullous, followed by ulcers; after each acute attack desquamation takes place, and the underlying skin is thickened and pigmented; the parts become atrophied, dry, weazy, as in old age.

   1898, Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, volume 10

   Around and around the plaza the players dodged, Weatherby close behind 'em, pantin' an' laborin' along like a weazy threshin' machine.

   1905, Leo Crane, “The Foreign Fiddler's Fee”, in Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, page 134

   Instead a little fellow in overalls (whose greasy hand had spoilt a good coat for him), the tenant of the shed from which the light came and the weasy owner of the weasy old taxi that stood in it.

   1934, Robert Alfred John Walling, The Bachelor Flat Mystery, page 88