weazel

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A form of weasel — Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genera Mustela, Neogale, Poecilogale, and Lyncodon, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.

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Meanings

nounweazel (plural weazels)

plural weazels

  1. archaicArchaic form of weasel.

    [H]e disappeared into his house much as a startled weazel makes for its hole.

    1888, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, “The Old Dominie”, in Auld Licht Idylls, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], →OCLC, page 138
    2 more examples

    […] set fire to the library, and stifle him in it like a weazel as he is […]

    1840, Frances Trollope, chapter III, in The Vicar of Wrexhill, London: Richard Bentley, pages 304–5

    Now the first time that his small weazel-eyes happened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play.

    1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
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APA

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“weazel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weazel. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “weazel,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weazel.

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