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weevily

/wee-vuh-lee/US // ˈwi və li //

偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地,偷偷摸摸,偷偷摸摸的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : infested with weevils.

Examples

  • He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward.

  • Sport began again in the Dudley farm-house by a dozen or so of the young people "forming on" for "Weevily Wheat."

  • And you squeezed the poor devils all the harder for your weevily corn and shoddy boots?

  • And there was the usual "weevily hardtack" in the bread-barge.