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6-letter words (1 found)

WEASEL,

5-letter words (13 found)

ALEWS,AWEEL,EALES,EASEL,EASLE,LEASE,SEWEL,SWALE,SWEAL,SWEEL,WALES,WEALS,WEELS,

4-letter words (31 found)

ALEE,ALES,ALEW,AWEE,AWES,AWLS,EALE,EASE,EELS,ELSE,EWES,LASE,LAWS,LEAS,LEES,SALE,SEAL,SEEL,SELE,SLAE,SLAW,SLEE,SLEW,SWEE,WAES,WALE,WASE,WEAL,WEEL,WEES,WELS,

3-letter words (25 found)

ALE,ALS,AWE,AWL,EAS,EEL,EEW,ELS,EWE,LAS,LAW,LEA,LEE,LES,LEW,SAE,SAL,SAW,SEA,SEE,SEL,SEW,WAE,WAS,WEE,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AL,AS,AW,EA,EE,EL,ES,EW,LA,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 82 words from weasel according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of weasel

weasel

Alternative forms

  • weazel (archaic)
  • weazle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ. The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwiːz(ə)l/
  • (General American) enPR: wēʹzəl, wēzʹl, IPA(key): /ˈwizəl/, /ˈwizl̩/
  • Rhymes: -iːzəl
  • Hyphenation: wea‧sel

Noun

weasel (plural weasels)

  1. The least weasel, Mustela nivalis.
  2. Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
  3. The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family.
  4. A devious or sneaky person or animal.
  5. A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.

Synonyms

  • (any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela): mustela

Derived terms

Mustelidae
  • African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha)
  • Altai weasel (Mustela altaica)
  • Amazon weasel (Neogale africana)
  • back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa)
  • Bonaparte's weasel (Mustela erminea cicognanii, Mustela cicognanii)
  • bridled weasel (Mustela frenata)
  • Colombian weasel (Neogale felipei)
  • common weasel (Mustela nivalis)
  • dwarf weasel (Mustela nivalis)
  • Egyptian weasel (Mustela nivalis subpalmata)
  • honey weasel (Mellivora capensis)
  • Japanese weasel (Mustela sibirica sibirica, Mustela itatsai)
  • least weasel (Mustela nivalis)
  • little weasel (Mustela nivalis)
  • long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)
  • Malacca weasel (Viverricula malaccensis)
  • Malay weasel, Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes)
  • mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)
  • New York weasel (Mustela frenata noveboracensis)
  • pale weasel (Mustela altaica)
  • Patagonian weasel (Lyncodon patagonicus)
  • pygmy weasel (Mustela nivalis)
  • short-tailed weasel (Mustela erminea, Mustela richardsonii)
  • Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica)
  • snake weasel (Poecilogale albinucha)
  • stripe-backed weasel (Mustela strigidorsa)
  • tiger weasel (Vormela spp.)
  • Tonkin weasel (Mustela tonkinensis)
  • vison weasel (Neogale vison)
  • white weasel (Mustela erminea)
  • yellow weasel (Mustela sibirica)
  • yellow-bellied weasel (Mustela kathiah)
other
  • chalk-eating weasel
  • honey weasel
  • weasel clause
  • weasel war dance
  • weasel-faced
  • weasel-like
  • iceweasel
  • weasel cat (Pronodon spp.; Poiana richardsoni)
  • weasel coot, weasel duck
  • weasel-headed armadillo (Euphractus spp.)
  • weasel lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus)
  • weaselly, weasely
  • weasel spider (Solpugidae spp.)
  • weasel word
  • wild weasel

Translations

Verb

weasel (third-person singular simple present weasels, present participle weaseling or weaselling, simple past and past participle weaseled or weaselled)

  1. (transitive) To achieve by clever or devious means.
    • 2010 (publication date), Tony Dajer, "Vital Signs", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 10:
      Prisoners are notorious for weaseling day passes to get out of lockup […] .
  2. (transitive or reflexive) To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
  3. (intransitive) To engage in clever or devious behavior.

Usage notes

  • Weaseling and weaseled are more common in the US. Weaselling and weaselled are more common in the UK.

Related terms

  • weasel one's way
  • weasel out

Translations

See also

  • ferret
  • mink
  • polecat
  • stoat

References

  • “weasel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “weasel”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Further reading

  • weasel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • weales

Source: wiktionary.org