Weasel
noun
A small animal with a long body that often hunts and eats other small animals.
I saw a weasel chasing a rabbit
Often appears as...
- white-furred weasel
- weasel hunt
noun
A person who is not trustworthy or honest.
You can't trust him, he's a weasel
Often appears as...
- sneaky weasel
- crafty weasel
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
verb
To avoid giving a clear answer or making a clear statement.
He weaseled out of answering the question
Often appears as...
- weasel out
- weasel through
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
A small animal with a long body that often hunts and eats other small animals.
I saw a weasel chasing a rabbit
Often appears as...
- white-furred weasel
- weasel hunt
noun
A person who is not trustworthy or honest.
You can't trust him, he's a weasel
Often appears as...
- sneaky weasel
- crafty weasel
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
verb
To avoid giving a clear answer or making a clear statement.
He weaseled out of answering the question
Often appears as...
- weasel out
- weasel through
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Wild Habitats
Weasels are often mentioned when talking about forests or fields, areas they typically inhabit.
The nature guide described how weasels populate the local woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Predatory Nature
Use 'weasel' to emphasize the animal's hunting instincts and agility, especially in literary contexts.
The hungry weasel moved stealthily through the underbrush.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
When referring to the animal, 'weasel' is neutral and not insulting.
Farmers often spot weasels near the barn because they hunt pests.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild Habitats
Weasels are often mentioned when talking about forests or fields, areas they typically inhabit.
The nature guide described how weasels populate the local woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Predatory Nature
Use 'weasel' to emphasize the animal's hunting instincts and agility, especially in literary contexts.
The hungry weasel moved stealthily through the underbrush.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
When referring to the animal, 'weasel' is neutral and not insulting.
Farmers often spot weasels near the barn because they hunt pests.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild Habitats
Weasels are often mentioned when talking about forests or fields, areas they typically inhabit.
The nature guide described how weasels populate the local woods.
Pro Tip 2/3Predatory Nature
Use 'weasel' to emphasize the animal's hunting instincts and agility, especially in literary contexts.
The hungry weasel moved stealthily through the underbrush.
Pro Tip 3/3Neutral Connotation
When referring to the animal, 'weasel' is neutral and not insulting.
Farmers often spot weasels near the barn because they hunt pests.
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Video examples
It Takes a Village PIPE...
bringing ducks out into an environment where everything on the food chain wants to eat them is trying to protect him and keep him alive long enough to we can produce some eggs well we're stapling down this here wire so that no mink or critters can sneak in while we're not looking the weasels on
Video examples
Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...
it doesn't matter so much how something looks; it's all in the motion, in the timing of how the thing moves. And the second was something one of our teachers told us. He actually did the weasel in "Ice Age." And he said, "As an animator, you're not a director -- you're an actor."
Video examples
From the top of the food...
providing more food for hawks, weasels, foxes and badgers. Bald eagles and ravens fed on the carrion that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests.
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Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
little bit don't they very small version of a weasel but they've got that a similar shape and and gait and and bounce to their running stride as well as similar sort of for me they seem like they have similar characters although there's a lot more
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The Most Powerful Bite PIPE...
but the weasel also has another unique adaptation for its body size the weasel has a really long skull and that leaves a really large surface area for the attachment of one of the muscles that
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Rubik's cubes and magic...
alright and at the field thank you a good puzzle is a mystery and weasels off mysteries so cute there you go okay you there you go as Einstein said the most beautiful
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Young Weasels Leave The...
she's now ready to move into an outdoor enclosure and become more independent it's really crucial for her that we get thinking she's a weasel rather than a
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Baby Weasel Playtime PIPE...
the wild at this age wild weasel kids would go on day trips with their mum who would show them how to hunt prey rob's got just the thing to help twist
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Stoat Mother Hunts to...
stoats and weasels are at their most vulnerable when they are young their early weeks are full of challenges and important life lessons
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Siberian Tiger Kill PIPE...
the cameras have captured other animals scavenging Rivera's kill sable a type of weasel eat whatever they find Eagles and
Video examples
It Takes a Village PIPE...
bringing ducks out into an environment where everything on the food chain wants to eat them is trying to protect him and keep him alive long enough to we can produce some eggs well we're stapling down this here wire so that no mink or critters can sneak in while we're not looking the weasels on
Video examples
Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...
it doesn't matter so much how something looks; it's all in the motion, in the timing of how the thing moves. And the second was something one of our teachers told us. He actually did the weasel in "Ice Age." And he said, "As an animator, you're not a director -- you're an actor."
Video examples
From the top of the food...
providing more food for hawks, weasels, foxes and badgers. Bald eagles and ravens fed on the carrion that the wolves abandoned. So did bears, which also ate the berries on the returning shrubs. Bison numbers rose as they browsed the revitalized forests.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 198 PIPE...
little bit don't they very small version of a weasel but they've got that a similar shape and and gait and and bounce to their running stride as well as similar sort of for me they seem like they have similar characters although there's a lot more
Video examples
The Most Powerful Bite PIPE...
but the weasel also has another unique adaptation for its body size the weasel has a really long skull and that leaves a really large surface area for the attachment of one of the muscles that
Video examples
Rubik's cubes and magic...
alright and at the field thank you a good puzzle is a mystery and weasels off mysteries so cute there you go okay you there you go as Einstein said the most beautiful
Video examples
Young Weasels Leave The...
she's now ready to move into an outdoor enclosure and become more independent it's really crucial for her that we get thinking she's a weasel rather than a
Video examples
Baby Weasel Playtime PIPE...
the wild at this age wild weasel kids would go on day trips with their mum who would show them how to hunt prey rob's got just the thing to help twist
Video examples
Stoat Mother Hunts to...
stoats and weasels are at their most vulnerable when they are young their early weeks are full of challenges and important life lessons
Video examples
Siberian Tiger Kill PIPE...
the cameras have captured other animals scavenging Rivera's kill sable a type of weasel eat whatever they find Eagles and
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Justin Cronin
American Author
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
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Steven Crowder
Canadian Actor
When Barack Obama tries to continually weasel his ever-expanding government into the private sector or does something like try to sneak the biggest backdoor tax in history into the books, he ceases to be 'Presidential.
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Ted DiBiase Sr.
American Wrestler
Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone and talk, he was a natural and so good. His character like mine was so hated, it was like a little weasel.
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Jim Fowler
American Scientist
I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
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Lady Gregory
Irish Dramatist
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.
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John Cena
American Actor
I want to see someone like Bobby 'The Brain' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.
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John Lanchester
British Journalist
Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.
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John Hodgman
American Comedian
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
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George MacDonald Fraser
Scottish Author
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
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W. C. Fields
American Comedian
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Quote examples
Justin Cronin
American Author
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
Quote examples
Steven Crowder
Canadian Actor
When Barack Obama tries to continually weasel his ever-expanding government into the private sector or does something like try to sneak the biggest backdoor tax in history into the books, he ceases to be 'Presidential.
Quote examples
Ted DiBiase Sr.
American Wrestler
Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone and talk, he was a natural and so good. His character like mine was so hated, it was like a little weasel.
Quote examples
Jim Fowler
American Scientist
I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
Quote examples
Lady Gregory
Irish Dramatist
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.
Quote examples
John Cena
American Actor
I want to see someone like Bobby 'The Brain' jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.
Quote examples
John Lanchester
British Journalist
Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.
Quote examples
John Hodgman
American Comedian
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
Quote examples
George MacDonald Fraser
Scottish Author
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
Quote examples
W. C. Fields
American Comedian
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Example 1 of 10
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