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单词 weasel
释义 weasel
n. & v.
--n
  1. a small reddish-brown flesh-eating mammal, Mustela nivalis, with a slender body, related to the stoat and ferret.
  2. a stoat.
  3. colloq. a deceitful or treacherous person.
--vintr. (weaselled, weaselling; US weaseled, weaseling)
  1. esp. US equivocate or quibble.
  2. (foll. by on, out) default on an obligation.
Phrases and idioms
weasel-faced having thin sharp features. weasel word (usu. in pl.) a word that is intentionally ambiguous or misleading.
Derivatives
weaselly adj.
Etymology: OE wesle, wesule f. WG
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