weevily

[ wee-vuh-lee ]

adjective

1. infested with weevils.

Word History and Origins

Origin of weevily¹

First recorded in 1750–60; weevil + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Many songs we know such were play-party songs such as “Buffalo Gals,” “Skip to my Lou,” “Old Dan Tucker,” “Old Brass Wagon,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,” “Weevily Wheat,” and “B.I.N.G.O.”

From Literature

The game for “Weevily Wheat” requires children in small groups of four, with each child numbering off 1-2-3-4.

From Literature

The song “Weevily Wheat” refers to wheat that is infested with beetles or weevils that destroy the plants.

From Literature

When she wasn’t fussing about him seeming glad to bring home the bent cans and weevily rice and flour we couldn’t sell at the store, she was complaining about his not having any get-up-and-go.

From Literature

How natural, then, was it that seafarers like ourselves, who were seldom in port and whose diet for months consisted chiefly of tough salt junk and weevily biscuit, should be more vividly impressed by a luxurious meal on shore than by all the lions of these foreign lands.

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