weazen
English edit
Etymology edit
See wizen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
weazen (plural weazens)
- An old person.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- Marry, come up, say I — what a plague — does an old weazen think that tender lasses are to be bought like pullets o' a market day?
Synonyms edit
- geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person
Adjective edit
weazen (comparative more weazen, superlative most weazen)
- Thin; sharp; withered; wizened.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- It was not merely that they were weazen and shrivelled—though they were certainly that too—but they looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.