squally
/ˈskwɔːli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Producing or characteristic of loud wails.
Example Sentences
- "On the eighth of February the winds grew ſtrong and ſqually, accompanied with rain and a north-weſt ſwell;[…]."
- "Feb. 9. 1820.[…]The night was rather squally and cloudy, with occasional showers."
- "Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness."
- "Something whimpered in the room—high and squally."
- "One baby was three times as big as his brother and different in other ways. He wasn't bald and squinched and squally like most infants, but had a nimbus of red-gold hair and huge gray eyes and lay there smiling to himself."
- "“Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a son.” When I was born, he very quickly saw that I was a scrawny, squally baby girl. I was not a Buick, and I was not his son."
Etymology
From squall + -y; from 1719.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
squallier (comparative)
more squally (comparative)
squalliest (superlative)
most squally (superlative)