weazen

English

Etymology

See wizen.

Noun

weazen (plural weazens)

  1. (figuratively) An old person.
    • Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
      Marry, come up, say I — what a plague — does an old weazen think that tender lasses are to be bought like pullets o' a market day?

Adjective

weazen (comparative more weazen, superlative most weazen)

  1. Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.
    • Charles Dickens, Bleak House
      It was not merely that they were weazen and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.
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