weevily
adjective
infested with weevils.
weevilly,
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a variation of
weevily.
Example Sentences
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I won't have none of your weevilly wheat I won't have none of your barley, I'll have some flour In half an hour To bake a cake for Charley.—
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
Well, the man said, not unless you called tainted salt-horse and weevilly biscuit abuse; and then the captain sat down again, and I could feel his poor wife shrinking beside me.
From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells
That beset fortress had had no supplies since Rodney's visit, in January of the year before, and was now in sore want, the provisions being scanty and bad, the biscuits weevilly, and the meat tainted.
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
One night my wagons, which were overloaded with these confounded weevilly mealies, got stuck in the drift of a small tributary of the Tugela that most inopportunely had come down in flood.
From Child of Storm by Henry Rider Haggard
Bit of a middy, fed on salt tack and weevilly biscuit, talk of giving me rope’s-end!
From Cutlass and Cudgel by J. Schonberg
