weevil

plural weevils

1. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
   1. Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.

      Near-synonym: snout beetle (usually synonymous)

      Synonyms: true weevil, snout beetle

2. Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
3. derogatoryfigurativelyA loathsome person.

   But you accuse other men of villainy with too easy a tongue, you weevil. I have never wanted you in this matter, and I have said so.

   1950, Jack Lindsay, Fires in Smithfield. A Novel of Mary Tudor’s Reign, London: The Bodley Head, →OCLC, page 201

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   Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.

   2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023