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Definition weevil

Etymology

From Middle English wevel, from Old English wifel (“beetle”), from Proto-Germanic *wibilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *web?el-, from *(h?)web?- (“to wave, to weave”), said to be from the woven appearance of a weevil’s larval case, + *-el-, *-l?- (diminutive or attributive suffix); see also wave and weave.

Compare Old Saxon goldwivel, wivel (“glowworm”); 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 tordyfvel); dialectal Russian ???????? (véblica, “intestinal worm”).

Noun

weevil (plural weevils)

1. Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea, many having a distinctive snout.
2. Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea.
3. Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum).
4. (figuratively, derogatory) A loathsome person.

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