Weasel
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English
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /'wiËzÉl/
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Noun
weasel (plural weasels)
- A carnivorous mammal of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and white belly.
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Translations
- Albanian: nuse e lalës
- Basque: erbinude
- Belarussian: лаÑка
- Bosnian: lasica f
- Breton: kaerell
- Bulgarian: невеÑÑÑлка (nevestulka)
- Catalan: mostela f
- Croatian: lasica
- Czech: lasice, kolÄava
- Danish: brud
- Dutch: wezel m
- Esperanto: mustelo
- Estonian: nirk
- Finnish: lumikko
- French: belette f
- Frisian: wezeling
- Friulian: bilite
- Gallegan: donicela, denociña
- German: Wiesel n
- Greek: Î½Ï ÏίÏÏα f
- Hungarian: menyét
- Icelandic: hreysiköttur, vesla
- Irish: bláthnaid ghallda
- Italian: donnola f
- Ladin: belora
- Latin: mustela
- Latvian: zebiekste
- Lithuanian: žebenkštis
- Lower Sorbian: Åasyca, Åasycka
- Macedonian: невеÑÑÑлка (nevestulka)
- Maltese: ballottra
- Norwegian: snømus
- Occitan: mostèla, polida
- Polish: Åasica
- Portuguese: doninha
- Romanian: nevÄstuica
- Romansh: mustaila
- Romany: boriori f
- Russian: лаÑка (laska)
- Sami: nirpi
- Sardinian: bucca de mele, bucchemeli
- Scottish: neas bheag
- Serbian: лаÑиÑа (lasica)
- Slovak: lasica
- Slovenian: podlasica f
- Spanish: comadreja f, mostela f
- Swedish: vessla
- Turkish: gelincik
- Ukrainian: лаÑиÑÑ (lasicja)
- Upper Sorbian: kohlica
- Welsh: bronwen, gwenci
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Verb
to weasel (present participle weaselling (UK), weaseling (US), past tense and past participle weaselled (UK), weaseled (US))
- To benefit by clever or devious means, esp. to escape a commitment. (from the supposed cunningness of the weasel),
- To weasel out of doing something
- To weasel something out of somebody
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Derived Terms
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