English
Pronunciation
Noun
weasel (plural weasels)
- A carnivorous mammal of the genus Mustela , having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and white belly.
Translations
- Albanian: nuse e lalës
- Basque: erbinude
- Belarussian: ласка
- Bosnian: lasica f
- Breton: kaerell
- Bulgarian: невестулка (nevestulka )
- Catalan: mostela f
- Croatian: lasica
- Czech: lasice , kolčava
- Danish: brud
- Dutch: wezel m
- Esperanto: mustelo
- Estonian: nirk
- Finnish: lumikko
- French: belette f
- Frisian: wezeling
- Friulian: bilite
- Gallegan: donicela , denociña
- German: Wiesel n
- Greek: νυφίτσα f
- Hungarian: menyét
- Icelandic: hreysiköttur , vesla
- Irish: bláthnaid ghallda
- Italian: donnola f
- Ladin: belora
- Latin: mustela
- Latvian: zebiekste
- Lithuanian: žebenkštis
- Lower Sorbian: łasyca , łasycka
- Macedonian: невестулка (nevestulka )
- Maltese: ballottra
- Norwegian: snømus
- Occitan: mostèla , polida
- Polish: łasica
- Portuguese: doninha
- Romanian: nevăstuica
- Romansh: mustaila
- Romany: boriori f
- Russian: ласка (laska )
- Sami: nirpi
- Sardinian: bucca de mele , bucchemeli
- Scottish: neas bheag
- Serbian: ласица (lasica )
- Slovak: lasica
- Slovenian: podlasica f
- Spanish: comadreja f, mostela f
- Swedish: vessla
- Turkish: gelincik
- Ukrainian: ласиця (lasicja )
- Upper Sorbian: kohlica
- Welsh: bronwen , gwenci
Transitive verb
to weasel (present participle weaselling (British), weaseling (US), past tense and past participle weaselled (British), weaseled (US))
- (followed by out of between the object and the person or transaction so affected) To obtain (something) from someone or some transaction, generally by being clever, devious or even malicious (from the supposed cunningness of the weasel).
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