pill vs weevil

pill

noun
  • A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person. 

  • A bullet (projectile). 

  • An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. 

  • A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication. 

  • A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to. 

  • Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill. 

  • A comical or entertaining person. 

  • A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball. 

  • Hyponyms: tablet, caplet, capsule, lozenge 

  • Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid). 

  • Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. 

verb
  • To peel; to make by removing the skin. 

  • To be peeled; to peel off in flakes. 

  • To medicate with pills. 

  • Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber. 

  • To form into the shape of a pill. 

  • To persuade or convince someone of something. 

weevil

noun
  • A loathsome person. 

  • Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles, ranging in size from tiny to large, in the superfamily Curculionoidea, the most characteristic species having the head projecting in a distinctive snout with the mouthparts at the tip. 

  • Any of many similar, but more distantly related, beetles such as the biscuit weevil (Stegobium paniceum). 

  • Any of many tens of thousands of species of herbivorous beetles of various sizes, in the family Curculionidae within the superfamily Curculionoidea. 

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