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Vinony

mealy

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmiːli/

adj

Etymology: From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.

  1. Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

    “Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.”

  2. Of the pale yellow color of a canary.

    “That it is a cross-breed there can be no doubt, from the fact that after a year or two the brilliant colours, both orange and black, begin to fade—the orange fading into a mealy tint, and the black to a dingy grey.”

name

Etymology: Variant of Malley.

  1. A surname from Irish.

noun

Etymology: From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.

  1. A canary of a pale yellow color.

    “I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.”

    “The clear Norwich canaries, as well as the evenly marked, the crested, the ticked, the green, and the unevenly marked, are each divided into two separate classes, i.e., jonques and mealies.”