Weevily
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Weevily is an adjective meaning Infested with or containing weevils.
Meaning
Infested with or containing weevils.
Example Sentences
Hind had made his fortune provisioning railway construction gangs and lakeboat crews with the very cheapest of weevily foodstuffs.
O, I’ll have none of your weevily wheat, And I’ll have none of your barley, O, I’ll have none of your weevily wheat To bake a cake for Charlie.
[…] Hornblower remembered the stuffy dark midshipman’s berth, the smells and the creakings, the bitter cold nights, turning out in response to the call for all hands, the weevilly bread and the wooden beef, and he yearned for them all, with the sick feeling of hopeless longing.
1813, The Literary Panorama, Volume 13, “State of Trade,” Lloyd’s Coffee House, June 21, p. 1037, A considerable portion of the rice now on hand is of inferior quality, and weevily; it gives distaste in families, and few domestics make sufficiently good use of their eyes to pick it carefully.
Word Forms
- weevilly
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biscuit, weeviled, weevillike, wormy, verminous, vermined.
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