weasy
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]weasy (comparative more weasy, superlative most weasy)
- Alternative form of wheezy
- 1858, Henry John Coke (Hon.), A Will and a Way, volume 1, page 151:
- The fumes of a long pipe, whose stem she sucked between her toothless gums, occasionally found its way into her weazy lungs.
- 1860, Anthony Trollope, The three clerks, page 107:
- “Thee bee'st for sartan too thick and weazy like for them stairs,” said the miner.
- 1876, Joyce Emmerson P. Muddock, As the shadows fall, volume 1, page 101:
- A little, weazy, shaky laugh, ending with a cough.
- 1898, Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, volume 10:
- Pellagra is characterized by an erythematous eruption affecting parts chiefly exposed to the sun; it prefers the face and the hands; the skin is swollen, tense, bullous, followed by ulcers; after each acute attack desquamation takes place, and the underlying skin is thickened and pigmented; the parts become atrophied, dry, weazy, as in old age.
- 1905, Leo Crane, “The Foreign Fiddler's Fee”, in Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, page 134:
- Around and around the plaza the players dodged, Weatherby close behind 'em, pantin' an' laborin' along like a weazy threshin' machine.
- 1934, Robert Alfred John Walling, The Bachelor Flat Mystery, page 88:
- Instead a little fellow in overalls (whose greasy hand had spoilt a good coat for him), the tenant of the shed from which the light came and the weasy owner of the weasy old taxi that stood in it.
- 2021, James Sibley, Who Cares What You Think? It's All BS Anyway!:
- Needless to say, woke up the morning of my first flight with what I can only describe as a weasy, queasy, uneasy feeling, or somewhere between a bad case of vertigo and diarrhea.