weaselly

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling a weasel (in appearance).
    — 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.
  2. Devious; cunning; misleading; sneaky.
    — 1864, W. S. Gilbert, “Sixty-Three and Sixty-Four” originally published in Fun, V (2 January 1864), p. 162, later published in Bab Ballads, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970, p. 37, With intellect weaselly, artist has easily earned all his bacon and greens by it, And now that it’s done and all ready for Fun, it’s my duty to say what he means by it.

词形变化

more weaselly comparative weasellier comparative most weaselly superlative weaselliest superlative weasely alternative

词源

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.
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