weasel

Etymology
From, from , from , from. The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.

Noun

 * 1) The least weasel,.
 * 2) Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
 * 3) The taxonomic family  is also called the weasel family.
 * 4) A devious or sneaky person or animal.
 * 5) A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.
 * 1) A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.

Derived terms

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Translations

 * Albanian:, , , , , , , nusmirë,
 * Algonquin: cigosi
 * Arabic: اِبْن عِرْس, عِرْسَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: فارة الخيل
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:, , ,
 * Bashkir: йәтсә
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ла́ска
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cimbrian: bròiballe
 * Czech: lasice
 * Danish: væsel,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:,  vizelino
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician: denociña, doniña,
 * Georgian: თრითინა, სინდიოფალა, ,
 * German:, , Zwergwiesel, Kleinwiesel, Hermännchen
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γαλέη, γαλῆ
 * Hebrew: חָמוֹס
 * Hindi: रासू
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bláthnaid ghallda
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Korean: 족제비
 * Latgalian: luoseica
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zebiekste
 * Lithuanian: žebenkštis
 * Low German: Wesel
 * Luxembourgish: Wisel
 * Macedonian: ла́сица
 * Malay: wesel
 * Maori: tori uaroa
 * Mazanderani: لسک
 * Navajo: dlǫ́ʼii
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: wesle
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Elkj
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: whitrat
 * Scottish Gaelic: neas, neas bheag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ласица
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: baḍḍòttula
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: łasyca, łasycka
 * Upper Sorbian: kohlica
 * Spanish:, mustela, turón
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: mustela
 * Thai: เพียงพอน
 * Tibetan: ཟེ་མོ་སེར་པོ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ла́ска, ла́сиця
 * Volapük: visaf
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: gwenci, bronwen
 * West Frisian: wezeling


 * Belarusian: ла́ска
 * Catalan: visó
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: mustelo,  virmustelo,  mustelino, mustelo
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γαλέη, γαλῆ
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: easóg
 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: sermulis, zebiekste
 * Maori: wītara, wīhara, tori uaroa
 * Navajo: dlǫ́ʼii
 * Plautdietsch: Elkj
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: achuqalla
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: neas
 * Ukrainian: ла́ска, ла́сиця
 * Volapük: visaf
 * West Frisian: marter


 * Catalan: mustèlid
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto:,  virmusteledo,  musteledino, mustelo
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: tori uaroa, tori
 * Spanish:
 * Walloon:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:


 * Albanian:
 * Basque: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Friulian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Ladin:
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Occitan: ,
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Sardinian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Vilamovian:

Verb

 * 1)  To achieve by clever or devious means.
 * 2) * 2010 (publication date), Tony Dajer, "Vital Signs",, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 10:
 * Prisoners are notorious for weaseling day passes to get out of lockup.
 * 1)  To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
 * 2)  To engage in clever or devious behavior.
 * 1)  To engage in clever or devious behavior.
 * 1)  To engage in clever or devious behavior.

Usage notes

 * and are more common in the US.  and  are more common in the UK.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian: kihúzza magát valamiből
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish: ,