weazen
English
Etymology
See wizen.
Noun
weazen (plural weazens)
- (figuratively) An old person.
- Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
- 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?
- Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Adjective
weazen (comparative more weazen, superlative most weazen)
- Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- It was not merely that they were weazen and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House