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Mealy

//ˈmiːli// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

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

  2. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency wordnet
  2. 2
    containing meal or made of meal wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From meal + -y.

Etymology 2

From meal + -y.

Etymology 3

Variant of Malley.

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