n.
- a small, slender carnivorous mammal related to, but smaller than, the stoat.
[Mustela nivalis and other species.]
▸Irish term for stoat.
- informal a deceitful or treacherous person.
v.
(weasels, weaselling, weaselled; US weasels, weaseling, weaseled)
- achieve (something) through cunning or deceit.
- chiefly N. Amer. behave or talk evasively.
Phrase
- weasel words
words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading.
Derivative
Etymology
OE wesle, wesule, of W. Gmc origin.
