weasel word

1. 1.

   an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion

   Broaderreservation

Questions about weasel word

What does weasel word mean?

weasel word means "an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion".

Is weasel word a common word?

weasel word is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.