weevilly , also: weevily

"Salt junk and weevilly biscuits, with a rib of a tough Barbary ox when the tenders come in.

Conditions at sea were well known to be squalid and comfortless, wages beggarly, food too often no more than salt beef and weevilly biscuit, while officers were often no more than petty tyrants.

The scholastic method of discussing a point by quotation of Brown's position against Smith may do for the weevilly brain of a University don, but is well know to bring one no nearer to solution, satisfactory or otherwise, of the original problem.