Meanings
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noun
a small slender carnivorous mammal of the genus Mustela or a related genus
A weasel slipped through a gap in the stone wall.
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Etymology
From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ. The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.