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weevily

[ wee-vuh-lee ]

adjective

  1. infested with weevils.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of weevily1

First recorded in 1750–60; weevil + -y 1

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Example Sentences

He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward.

Sport began again in the Dudley farm-house by a dozen or so of the young people "forming on" for "Weevily Wheat."

And you squeezed the poor devils all the harder for your weevily corn and shoddy boots?

And there was the usual "weevily hardtack" in the bread-barge.

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