Citations:weasel word


 * 1900. Century Magazine, quoted in Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (New York: Facts on File Publications, 1987)).
 * Weasel words are words that suck all of the life out of the words next to them just as a weasel sucks an egg and leaves the shell.
 * May 31 1916,, speech delivered in St. Louis, MO:
 * Now, you can have universal training or you can have voluntary training, but when you use the word 'voluntary' to qualify the word 'universal', you are using a weasel word; it has sucked all the meaning out of 'universal'. The two words flatly contradict one another.