Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of rockling, probably the five-bearded, Motella mustela.
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- verb UK Present participle of
weasel .
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Examples
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Love asks Kirk why the treaty isn't public, and Kirk's answers are -- at best -- total weaselling and at worst fabrications.
Boing Boing 2009
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RP's weaselling over what an "honest broker" may or may not be is transparent enough though.
An innocent question EliRabett 2009
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Perhaps those currently weaselling against the PM's apology to the First Nations on our behalf - I didn't do it!
Archive 2008-06-01 the rev. paperboy 2008
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Anyways, better that he's there and miserable than weaselling his way into some other company, like, I don't know, the one I'm in now or one of the ones I deal with.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2008
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Saying that "Well, technically it hasn't taken place yet so we're not cancelling a thing" is conservative-like weaselling.
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In contrast, "Michael Howard - no plain speaker he, but carefully weaselling ...".
Archive 2005-02-13 Laban 2005
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The gap is closing they claim with a counterfeit theatrical flair then smear its essence in a weaselling elucidation that says – oh, maybe, perhaps, gross margins of error might imply no major change!
Where Bullshit Lies Thick Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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In contrast, "Michael Howard - no plain speaker he, but carefully weaselling ...".
Polly Toynbee on the Livingstone affair Laban 2005
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Some having to do with the university, like weaselling my way into the very closed course I've had my eye on since April, and formulating syllabi,-boi,-buses ... look, don't let's be pedantic about it, damn you.
Archive 2006-08-01 Heo 2006
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Some having to do with the university, like weaselling my way into the very closed course I've had my eye on since April, and formulating syllabi,-boi,-buses ... look, don't let's be pedantic about it, damn you.
What I Did on My Blogging Hiatus Heo 2006
hernesheir commented on the word weaselling
A fish, not a mustelid.
February 17, 2011
bilby commented on the word weaselling
Elmer Fudd's favourite wine.
February 17, 2011
reesetee commented on the word weaselling
Teehee!
February 17, 2011