Weevil vs Deevil - What's the difference?
weevil | deevil |
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Many of them have a distinctive snout.
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the family Curculionidae belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea .
Any of several similar but more distantly related beetles such as the biscuit weevil.
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Margaret O. (Wilson) Oliphant, title=The Open Door, and the Portrait., chapter=, edition=
, passage=If the deevil himsel was in the auld hoose, I have no interest in 't one way or another--" "Sandy, hold your peace!" cried his wife imperatively. " }}
* {{quote-book, year=1912, author=O. Douglas, title=Olivia in India, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The last I saw of her she had seized the khansamah's young assistant and was shouting at him, "Chokra--ye impident little black deevil , will you tell this moment, has there been an accident?" }}
As nouns the difference between weevil and deevil
is that weevil is any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily curculionoidea many of them have a distinctive snout while deevil is .weevil
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(en noun)Synonyms
* snout beetle, true weevilDerived terms
* apple blossom weevil * bean weevil * biscuit weevil * giraffe weevil * grain weevil, granary weevil * maize weevil * pine weevil * true weevil * wheat weevildeevil
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