Definitions for mealy

mealy meal·y

Spelling: [mee-lee]
IPA: /ˈmi li/

Mealy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in mealy (aelmy).

Definitions for mealy

adjective

  1. having the qualities of meal; powdery; soft, dry, and crumbly:
  2. of or containing meal; farinaceous:
  3. covered with or as if with meal or powder:
  4. flecked as if with meal; spotty:
  5. pale; sallow:
  6. mealy-mouthed.

Origin of mealy

First recorded in 1525-35; meal2 + -y1

Examples for mealy

The flesh is inclined to be mealy; ripens the last of June in Texas.

If it is but potatoes and salt, let the salt be ground fine, and the potatoes white and mealy.

A baked potato, eaten as soon as done, is sweet, dry and mealy.

The "mealy Sweet" was not of much account; it was too dry, but the Harveys were excellent.

Third worst is the mealy apple, all too common in the coming season.

The name did not fit him; was too mealy; not debonair enough.

It has a mealy or sandy feeling when rubbed between the fingers.

How did you manage to bake these potatoes so that they are so good and mealy?

That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions.

They will not be mealy if they lie soaking in the water without boiling.

Word Value for mealy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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