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weasel-faced

weasel-faced adjective: having lean, sharp facial features.

Adjective

weasel-faced (comparative more weasel-faced, superlative most weasel-faced)

  1. Having lean, sharp facial features.
    • "Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42

Forms of weasel-faced

comparativemore weasel-faced
superlativemost weasel-faced

Questions about weasel-faced

What does weasel-faced mean?
Weasel-faced means having lean, sharp facial features.
What part of speech is weasel-faced?
Weasel-faced is an adjective.

Words near weasel-faced in the dictionary

  1. weasel war dances
  2. weasel word
  3. weasel worded
  4. weasel wording
  5. weasel words
  6. weasel-faced
  7. weasel-like
  8. weaseled
  9. weaseled into
  10. weaseled one's way
  11. weaseled out

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