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** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Etymology 1
From [en]; from 1719.
**** Adjective
[er]
1. Characterized by squall s, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1759 | author=John Lindsay | title=A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Y_URAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107&dq=%22squally%22%7C%22squallier%22%7C%22squalliest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NH8bUYmmDKnNmAW4m4HwDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22squally%22%7C%22squallier%22%7C%22squalliest%22&f=false | page=107
|passage=On the eighth of February the winds grew ſtrong and SQUALLY,
accompanied with rain and a north-weſt ſwell;[...].}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1824 | author=John Davy | chapter=Observations on the Specific Gravity and Temperature of Sea-Water, Made During a Voyage from Ceylon to England, in 1819 and 1820 | editors=David Brewster; Robert Jameson | title=The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal | volume=10 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dX9t4rfPYUwC&pg=PA319&dq=%22squally%22%7C%22squallier%22%7C%22squalliest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=63gbUdzEOunOmgXHjIDIBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22squally%22%7C%22squallier%22%7C%22squalliest%22&f=false | page=319
|passage=Feb. 9. 1820.[...]The night was rather SQUALLY and cloudy, with
occasional showers.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=Mary Maclaren | title=The Four Elizabeths | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=W3zRt_i2AXgC&pg=PA138 | page=138 | publisher=Xlibris | year_published=2011 | isbn=9781456853723
|passage=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.}}
1. Producing or characteristic of loud wail s.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1953 | author=Annemarie Selinko | title=Désirée | publisher=William Morrow & Company | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb8NSOr5iM0C&q=%22high+and+squally%22 | page=161
|passage=Something whimpered in the room—high and SQUALLY.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1984 | author=Bernard Evslin | title=Hercules | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CmDQ0pcc_lQC&pg=PT6 | publisher=Open Road Integrated Media | year_published=2012 | isbn=9781453264478
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Ferida Wolff | chapter=Not My Father's Son | title=Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul: Celebrating the Bond That Connects Generations | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xBFf_2tsW8QC&pg=PT139&dq=%22squally%22+baby | publisher=Open Road Integrated Media | isbn=9781453274910
|passage=“Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a
son.”<br>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.}}
***** Synonyms
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***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
Probably related to [en] [en].
**** Adjective
[er]
1. [en] Having unproductive wet spot s due to poor drainage .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. [en] Not equally good throughout; not uniform ; uneven ; faulty .
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1763 | author=Danby Pickering | title=The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth | volume=VI | publisher=Joseph Bentham | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=dvouAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA98&dq=%22squally%22 | page=98
|passage=It is enacted, That if at any time after the first day of _May_, any
cloth or kerſie, through the default or negligence of the carders, spinners or
weavers, or any of them, shall or do prove pursy, cockly, bandy, SQUALLY or
rowy by warp or woof, [...]}}