From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishweaselwea‧sel1 /ˈwiːzəl/ noun [countable] HBAa small thin furry animal that kills and eats rats and birds
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weasel• Methinks it is like a weasel.• He'd agreed with her about the low weasels who had nominated her.• I see fresh red squirrel and hare tracks, but curiously none at all of weasel.• I saw several tracks of rabbit, grouse, and one weasel.• And so in their turn came the fox and the stoat and the weasel.• Long bodies and short legs are reminders of their close relationship to weasels and polecats.weaselweasel2 verb (weaselled, weaselling British English, weaseled, weaseling American English) → weasel out→ See Verb tableOrigin weasel1 Old English weosule 