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wezel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • chicken noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  • weasel noun A small, slender carnivorous mammal with a long body and short legs, related to the stoat and ferret.

Senses

wezel is used for these senses in English:

  • chicken (countable, slang, sometimes, derogatory) A coward.
  • least weasel The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.

chicken — full definition

  1. noun A common domesticated bird raised for its eggs and meat.
  2. noun The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
  3. noun (informal) A cowardly person.
  4. adj (informal) Cowardly; afraid to do something.
  5. verb (informal, usually with "out") To back out of something through fear.

weasel — full definition

  1. noun A small, slender carnivorous mammal with a long body and short legs, related to the stoat and ferret.
  2. noun A sneaky or deceitful person.
  3. verb To get out of an obligation or gain something through evasive, dishonest means.

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