See weasy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1858, Henry John Coke (Hon.), A Will and a Way, volume 1, page 151:",
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"ref": "1860, Anthony Trollope, The three clerks, page 107:",
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"ref": "1876, Joyce Emmerson P. Muddock, As the shadows fall, volume 1, page 101:",
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"ref": "1898, Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association, volume 10:",
"text": "Pellagra is characterized by an erythematous eruption affecting parts chiefly exposed to the sun; it prefers the face and the hands; the skin is swollen, tense, bullous, followed by ulcers; after each acute attack desquamation takes place, and the underlying skin is thickened and pigmented; the parts become atrophied, dry, weazy, as in old age.",
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"ref": "1905, Leo Crane, “The Foreign Fiddler's Fee”, in Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, page 134:",
"text": "Around and around the plaza the players dodged, Weatherby close behind 'em, pantin' an' laborin' along like a weazy threshin' machine.",
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"ref": "1934, Robert Alfred John Walling, The Bachelor Flat Mystery, page 88:",
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"ref": "2021, James Sibley, Who Cares What You Think? It's All BS Anyway!:",
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