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squally

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squall·y  (skwôl)
adj. squall·i·er, squall·i·est
1. Characterized by gusts of wind.
2. Informal Marked by commotion or disturbance.
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Adj.1.squally - characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home life that has been extraordinarily squally"
squalling
unquiet - characterized by unrest or disorder; "unquiet days of riots"; "following the assassination of Martin Luter King ours was an unquiet nation"; "spent an unquiet night tossing and turning"
2.squally - characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain; "a grey squally morning"
stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"
squally
adjective stormy, wild, rough, turbulent, windy, tempestuous, blustery, gusty, inclement The competitors had to contend with squally weather conditions.
Translations
squally [ˈskwɔːlɪ] ADJ
1. [wind] → que viene a ráfagas; [day] → de chubascos
2. (fig) → turbulento, lleno de dificultades
squally
adj (+er) → stürmisch; wind also → böig


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Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands --visitors and all --were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Not very; it looks a trifle squally to the eastward, but we are all right till the wind changes.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
On the 5th of February, after a six days' passage, of which the first part was fine, and the latter very cold and squally, we entered the mouth of Storm Bay: the weather justified this awful name.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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