weevily
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of weevily
Example Sentences
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The microphone frame was vertically dipped in a cup of weevily wheat which had previously been warmed to rouse the larvae to activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
As chapters end--chapters of blood, crashing seas and weevily sea biscuit--the two are likely to take solace together, tormenting Locatelli or Boccherini.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she wasn’t fussing about him seeming glad to bring home the bent cans and weevily rice and flour we couldn’t sell at the store, she was complaining about his not having any get-up-and-go.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Oh, I won't have none o' y'r weevily wheat, I won't have none o' y'r barley, But have some flour in a half an hour To bake a cake for Charley.
From Prairie Folks by Garland, Hamlin
Moreover, they were nearly starved, their daily food being twenty-six ounces of coarse and often weevily biscuit, and four ounces of beans a day—or rather "pigeon peas"—with water.
From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John
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