weevily

American  

[wee-vuh-lee] / ˈwi və li /

Also weevilly,

adjective

1. infested with weevils.

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Etymology

Origin of weevily

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

Example Sentences

As chapters end--chapters of blood, crashing seas and weevily sea biscuit--the two are likely to take solace together, tormenting Locatelli or Boccherini.

From Time Magazine Archive

The microphone frame was vertically dipped in a cup of weevily wheat which had previously been warmed to rouse the larvae to activity.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Moreover, they were nearly starved, their daily food being twenty-six ounces of coarse and often weevily biscuit, and four ounces of beans a day—or rather "pigeon peas"—with water.

From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John

"I'll put it into the pot; it'll give it the flavour of something except weevily mealies"; he said, and fell to plucking it.

From Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Schreiner, Olive