weasel

Any of various carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a long slender body, a long tail, short legs, and brownish fur that in many species turns white in winter.

A person regarded as sneaky or treacherous.

To be evasive; equivocate.

To back out of a situation or commitment in a sneaky or cowardly manner.

A small carnivorous digitigrade mammal of the restricted genus Putorius, of the family Mustelidæ, related to the stoat or ermine, ferret, and polecat of the same genus, and less intimately to the marten or sable of the genus Mustela of the same family.

The weasel-coot.

A lean, mean, sneaking, greedy fellow.

Any one of various species of small carnivores belonging to the genus Putorius, as the ermine and ferret. They have a slender, elongated body, and are noted for the quickness of their movements and for their bloodthirsty habit in destroying poultry, rats, etc. The ermine and some other species are brown in summer, and turn white in winter; others are brown at all seasons.

the rasse.

a female or young male of the smew; — so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel. Called also weasel duck.