squalliest

squalliest is the superlative form of squally.

Meaning of squally

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
- On the eighth of February the winds grew ſtrong and ſqually, accompanied with rain and a north-weſt ſwell;[…].1759, John Lindsay, A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758, page 107
Producing or characteristic of loud wails.
- Something whimpered in the room—high and squally.1953, Annemarie Selinko, Désirée, William Morrow & Company, page 161

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

(UK, obsolete) Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
- Red bird eyne (Primula veris flore rubro), and white bird eyne (albo), p. 784 , grow very plentifully in moist and squally grounds in the north parts of England, as in Harwood neere to Blackburn in Lancashire, and ten miles from Preston in Aundernesse, also at Crosby Rauenswaith, and Crag-close in...1633, Gerard, Herbal
Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.
- 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, […]1763, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth, volume VI, Joseph Bentham, page 98

What is squalliest the superlative form of?: Squalliest is the superlative form of squally.

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