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Definition of Mealiest
1. mealy [adj] - See also: mealy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mealiest
Literary usage of Mealiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"These two Reporters being paid to abuse the latter of these gentlemen, like the
mealiest mercenaries, obeyed their orders. ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1902)
"One will say the mealiest potato is the best to use while his neighbor may say
that such a potato cooks to pieces so you can scarcely get it out of the ..."
3. The rule and exercises of holy dying. [Another] by Jeremy Taylor (1859)
"It is a thing that every one suffers, even persons of the lowest resolution, of
the mealiest virtue, of no breeding, of no discourse. ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1816)
"... taken up her abode, for here I find tint, the person and property of the
mealiest subject are equally ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... slew Morrice with a broadsword, and setting his head on a spear, pavo it
to ''the mealiest man in a' his train " to carry it to the lady. ..."
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