weazen

plural weazens

1. An old person.

   Marry, come up, say I — what a plague — does an old weazen think that tender lasses are to be bought like pullets o' a market day?

   1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: geriatric, oldster, senior citizen

comparative more weazen · superlative most weazen

1. Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.

   It was not merely that they were weazen and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

present singular third person weazens · participle present weazening · participle past weazened · past weazened