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mealy

[ mee-lee ]

adjective

, meal·i·er, meal·i·est.
  1. having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly:

    mealy potatoes; a mealy stone.

  2. of or containing meal; farinaceous:

    baked fish with a mealy crust.

  3. covered with or as if with meal or powder:

    flowers mealy with their pollen.

  4. flecked as if with meal; spotty:

    horses with mealy hides.

  5. pale; sallow:

    a mealy complexion.



mealy

/ ˈmiːlɪ /

adjective

  1. resembling meal; powdery
  2. containing or consisting of meal or grain
  3. sprinkled or covered with meal or similar granules
  4. (esp of horses) spotted; mottled
  5. pale in complexion
  6. short for mealy-mouthed


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmealiness, noun

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Other Words From

  • meali·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mealy1

First recorded in 1525–35; meal 2 + -y 1

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Example Sentences

Old-shell lobsters can survive international shipping, but the meat is usually mealy and course.

They withdrew their slap on the wrist, while citing various mealy mouthed reasons.

As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking.

Twenty-five years later, he wrote a mealy-mouthed not-quite apology for his rhetoric.

Appointing a task force on guns seems a little mealy-mouthed to me.

"It's no use being mealy-mouthed over this thing, Pete," he grated in that saw-mill voice of his.

When boiled in water the root separates into fibres, and is rather waxy, but when laid in hot ashes it becomes mealy.

The skin is yellow, the fruit of a palish red, and rather mealy.

Spent the evening in trying cooking experiments with mealy flour and some Neave's Food, which one of us had.

It was very good, and was followed by meat fried in mealy crumbs, and later on, some mealy porridge and Mellin mixed.

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