Associations to the word «Mealy»

Wiktionary

MEALY, adjective. Describing a substance, especially a dry foodstuff such as grain, that resembles meal.
MEALY BUG, noun. Alternative spelling of mealybug

Dictionary definition

MEALY, adjective. Containing meal or made of meal.
MEALY, adjective. Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats