weaselly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a weasel (in appearance).
adj
Example Sentences
- "The writer had just entered into his eighteenth year, when he met at the table of a certain Anglo-Germanist an individual, apparently somewhat under thirty, of middle stature, a thin and weaselly figure, a sallow complexion, a certain obliquity of vision, and a large pair of spectacles."
- "“Pretty?” […] Mr. Prestcott considered. “Fair to middling. Bit weaselly, if you know what I mean. Wouldn’t have been much without makeup. As it was, she managed to look quite attractive.”"
- "At three minutes past six the door opened to admit the naked, scrawny figure of Tingaling Bell. He had a sharp weasely face and a miserable body on which each bone showed."
- "On still weasellier, greasier members of the clique."
- "I lifted the extension, slowly released the button, easing in mid-ring like the weaselliest weasel."
- "He looks like a shorter, thinner, weasellier version of Tom Jones, and he sure knows how to work a crowd."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ Proto-West Germanic *wisulā Old English weosule Middle English wēsele English weasel Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English weaselly From weasel + -y.
Inflected Forms
more weaselly (comparative)
weasellier (comparative)
most weaselly (superlative)
weaselliest (superlative)
weasely (alternative)