weevily
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of weevily
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
"I'll put it into the pot; it'll give it the flavour of something except weevily mealies"; he said, and fell to plucking it.
From Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner
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