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Weevily

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Infested with or containing weevils.

    "1813, The Literary Panorama, Volume 13, “State of Trade,” Lloyd’s Coffee House, June 21, p. 1037, A considerable portion of the rice now on hand is of inferior quality, and weevily; it gives distaste in families, and few domestics make sufficiently good use of their eyes to pick it carefully."

Etymology

From weevil + -y.

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