weevil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *wibil, from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰel-, from *(h₁)webʰ- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l̥- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave.
Compare Old Saxon *wivil (“beetle”); Middle Low German wevel; Old High German wibil, wipil (modern German Wiebel (“beetle; chafer”)); Lithuanian vãbalas (“beetle; weevil”); Old Norse vifill, as in tordyfill (“dung beetle, scarab”) (whence Dutch tortwevel; Icelandic tordýfill, Norwegian tordivel, Old English tordwifel, Swedish tordyvel); dialectal Russian ве́блица (véblica, “intestinal worm”).
Inflected forms:
form: weevils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
pos: noun
gloss: A loathsome person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: But you accuse other men of villainy with too easy a tongue, you weevil. I have never wanted you in this matter, and I have said so.
Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.
Derived words: acorn weevil
alfalfa weevil
apple blossom weevil
apple flea weevil
apple weevil
ash weevil
banana root weevil
banana weevil
bean weevil
biscuit weevil
black vine weevil
black weevil
boll weevil
broad-bean weevil
broad-nosed weevil
cabbage seedpod weevil
cabbage seed weevil
carrot weevil
chestnut weevil
clover leaf weevil
clover-seed weevil
clover weevil
coffee-bean weevil
corn weevil
cotton-boll weevil
cowpea weevil
dicky rice weevil
drugstore weevil
Egyptian alfalfa weevil
fern weevil
flax weevil
flea weevil
flour weevil
flower weevil
Fuller's rose weevil
fungus weevil
giraffe weevil
gorse seed weevil
gorse weevil
grain weevil
granary weevil
grapevine weevil
greater rice weevil
lesser clover leaf weevil
maize weevil
mango weevil
New York weevil
New Zealand giraffe weevil
ngaio weevil
nut weevil
pales weevil
palmetto weevil
palm weevil
peach weevil
pea weevil
pecan weevil
pepper weevil
pine gall weevil
pine reproduction weevil
pine root-collar weevil
pine weevil
plum weevil
potato weevil
rice water weevil
rice weevil
root weevil
rose weevil
seed weevil
Sitka spruce weevil
square weevil
strawberry bud weevil
strawberry root weevil
strawberry weevil
sunflower seed weevil
sweetclover weevil
sweet potato weevil
thurberia weevil
true weevil
vegetable weevil
vine weevil
walnut weevil
water weevil
weevily
West Indian cane weevil
wheat weevil
white-fringed weevil
white-pine weevil
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: gorgoyu
lang: Belarusian
word: даўгано́сік
roman: dawhanósik
lang: Belarusian
word: сло́нік
roman: slónik
lang: Belarusian
word: шашо́лка
roman: šašólka
lang: Burmese
word: ဆင်ပိုး
roman: hcangpui:
lang: Catalan
word: corc
lang: Catalan
word: fraró
lang: Catalan
word: morrut
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 象鼻蟲 /象鼻虫
roman: xiàngbíchóng
lang: Czech
word: nosatec
lang: Czech
word: pilous
lang: Dutch
word: snuitkever
lang: Esperanto
word: kalandro
lang: Esperanto
word: grenskarabo
lang: Finnish
word: kärsäkäsmäinen
lang: French
word: charançon
lang: French
word: balanin
lang: French
word: cosson
lang: Galician
word: gurgullo
lang: Galician
word: congorxo
lang: German
word: Rüsselkäfer
lang: Greek
word: βρούχος
roman: vroúchos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κίς
roman: kís
lang: Hungarian
word: ormányosbogár
lang: Hungarian
word: zsizsik
lang: Icelandic
word: væfla
lang: Icelandic
word: ranabjalla
lang: Italian
word: curculione
lang: Italian
word: calandra
lang: Italian
word: balanino
lang: Japanese
word: 象虫
roman: zōmushi
lang: Japanese
word: ゾウムシ
roman: zōmushi
lang: Old Javanese
word: bubuk
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: gurgudju
lang: Korean
word: 바구미
roman: bagumi
lang: Latin
word: curculiō
lang: Malay
word: bubuk
lang: Māori
word: pepeke nguturoa
lang: Navajo
word: tsé neiʼáhí
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Kornworm
lang: Polish
word: ryjkowiec
lang: Portuguese
word: gorgulho
lang: Russian
word: долгоно́сик
roman: dolgonósik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žižak
lang: Spanish
word: gorgojo
lang: Swedish
word: vivel
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سوس
roman: sus
lang: Ukrainian
word: довгоно́сик
roman: dovhonósyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: сло́ник
roman: slónyk
lang: Welsh
word: gwiddonyn