weasel
意味
- 《米話》(義務などから)逃げる《+out of+名》
例文
The weasel is noted for its bad smell.
いたちはその悪臭で知られている。
Hey, can you stop weaseling your way in, especially at times like this?
ちょっと、こういう時にだけしゃしゃり出るのはやめてよ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English wesele, from Old English weosule, from Proto-West Germanic *wisulā, from Proto-Germanic *wisulǭ. The verb is from c. 1900, from the supposed cunningness of the weasel.