What (who) is weasels - definition

GENUS OF MAMMALS

Weasels; Mustela; Weasle; Minkrat; Weasal; English weasel; Weasels in Japanese folklore

weasels

The alternative saying for M&Ms in upper Montana.
Please put some weasels on my ice cream.

weasel

¦ noun

1. a small, slender carnivorous mammal related to, but smaller than, the stoat. [Mustela nivalis and other species.]

Irish term for stoat.

2. informal a deceitful or treacherous person.

¦ verb (weasels, weaselling, weaselled; US weasels, weaseling, weaseled)

1. achieve (something) through cunning or deceit.

2. chiefly N. Amer. behave or talk evasively.

Phrases

weasel words words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading.

Derivatives

weaselly adjective

Origin

OE wesle, wesule, of W. Gmc origin.

weasel

(weasels)

A weasel is a small wild animal with a long thin body, a tail, short legs, and reddish-brown fur.

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Wikipedia

Weasel

Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae. The genus Mustela includes the least weasels, polecats, stoats, ferrets, and European mink. Members of this genus are small, active predators, with long and slender bodies and short legs. The family Mustelidae, or mustelids (which also includes badgers, otters, and wolverines), is often referred to as the "weasel family". In the UK, the term "weasel" usually refers to the smallest species, the least weasel (M. nivalis), the smallest carnivoran species.

Least weasels vary in length from 173 to 217 mm (6+3⁄4 to 8+1⁄2 in), females being smaller than the males, and usually have red or brown upper coats and white bellies; some populations of some species moult to a wholly white coat in winter. They have long, slender bodies, which enable them to follow their prey into burrows. Their tails may be from 34 to 52 mm (1+1⁄4 to 2 in) long.

Weasels feed on small mammals and have from time to time been considered vermin because some species took poultry from farms or rabbits from commercial warrens. They do, on the other hand, eat large numbers of rodents. Their range spans Europe, North America, much of Asia and South America, and small areas in North Africa.

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Pronunciation examples for weasels

1. which meant more hawks, more weasels,

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2. And those mascots could be turtles or weasels.

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3. and skunks and and weasels are all in the order of carnivores. So finding a new order

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Examples of use of weasels

1. You‘d open the fridge and it would be full of foxes, stoats and weasels.

2. Sometimes I see badgers, weasels and elk," said South Korean Sgt.

3. Much later, Europeans came, bringing cats, dogs, stoats, ferrets, possums, rabbits and weasels.

4. And I might remind these congressional weasels of both parties that illegals don‘t vote.

5. Toad, like the chancellor, was shamelessly boastful, egged on by an admiring fan club of stoats and weasels.