weasand

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noun

Plural noun:

weasandsweazandwassinwezzenwizenwizzenwosenweazonwesanwessandwezandwezon

1.
(dialectal)The oesophagus; the gullet.
2.
(dialectal)The throat or windpipe.
They're both so engrossed in this that they don't notice my landlady, who comes rushing out to learn what's going on. / "Why," her son explains, "he grabbed me by the weasand, it took me a long time to get my wind back."

Nguồn gốc từ

Middle English wesand, wesande, wesaunt, from Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (weasand, windpipe, gullet), from *waisund, *waisundu (windpipe, gullet), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (to flow, run). Cognate with wāsande weasand, wāsendi, weisant windpipe, weisant windpipe, Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (the gullet of ruminating animals), Weisel.