weazen
English
Etymology
See wizen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwiːzən/
Noun
weazen (plural weazens)
- An old person.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- 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?
Synonyms
- geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person
Adjective
weazen (comparative more weazen, superlative most weazen)
- Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- 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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