different between weasand vs weason

English

Alternative forms

• weazand
• wezzen, wizen, wizzen, wosen (dialectal)
• wesan, wessand, wezand, wezon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wesand, wesande, from Old English w?send, w?send (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Germanic *waisundiz (“windpipe, gullet”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). Cognate with Old Frisian w?sande (“weasand”), Old Saxon w?sendi, Old High German weisant (“windpipe”), Middle High German weisant (“windpipe”), Bavarian Waisel, Wasel, Wasling (“the gullet of ruminating animals”), Alemannic German Weisel (“esophagus (of an animal)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wi?z?nd/

Noun

weasand (plural weasands)

1. The oesophagus; the windpipe; the trachea.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 42^[1]:

     “By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it.”

2. The throat in general.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Rat.
     I’ll slily seize and
     Let blood from her weasand,—
     Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,
     With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.

   • 1890, Knut Hamsen, Sult (Hunger), Part Four, at p.181 (Canongate Books Ltd. 2016 paperback edition), Sverre Lyngstad translation:

     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."

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life:

     ‘Which fellows?’ Very loud now, but a tightening in her weasand.

Translations

Anagrams

• Sandawe

English

Noun

weason (plural weasons)

1. Obsolete form of weasand.
   • Mr Purcell: His Ground (opera)

     No pressure should be placed on the bum or the weason.