weazeny

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English

Etymology

From weazen +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

weazeny (comparative more weazeny, superlative most weazeny)

  1. (colloquial) Somewhat weazen; shrivelled.
    • 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
      weazeny baked pears
    • 1867, J. T. Newell, Hog Hunting in the East: And Other Sports:
      The head was supported by a neck, long, pinched, and weazeny, and was surmounted by a somewhat worn and ragged puggree, from the sides of which a few straggling grey hairs escaped

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “weazeny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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