Squally

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Squally \Squall"y\ (-[y^]), a.
     1. Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and
        violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
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     2. (Agric.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a


        field of turnips or grain. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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     3. (Weaving) Not equally good throughout; not uniform;
        uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  squally
       adj 1: characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home
              life that has been extraordinarily squally" [syn: {squalling}]
       2: characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain; "a
          gray squally morning"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "squally":
     aeolian, airish, airy, blasty, blowy, blustering, blusterous,
     blustery, boreal, breezy, brisk, castellatus, cirrose, cirrous,
     cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, dark, dirty,
     drafty, favonian, flawy, fresh, gloomy, gusty, heavy, lenticularis,
     mammatus, nebulous, nimbose, nubilous, overcast, overclouded,
     puffy, stormy, stratiform, stratous, thunderheaded, windy