What is "mealy"

Usage examples of "mealy".

Boiled or steamed Potatoes should turn out floury, or mealy, by reason of the starch granules swelling up and filling the cellular tissue, whilst absorbing the albuminous contents of its cells.

Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.

Of course he pumps her for information about Joy Hall, but Mealy remains determinedly ignorant about everything that she finds unimportant -- which is almost everything unconnected with cock -- and when she does impart information, it is usually couched in the most ambiguous terms.

Only Mealy -- Amelia -- has spoken of doing so often, but she has been here ten years.

Twas the good Liberty cause, and all the mealy office-seekers were on our side till they saw the wind blowing tother way.

Doc extended a zapote nut about the size of a baseball, brown, with a custard-flavored meat that was cool and mealy.

Breadfruit and taro are kingly vegetables, the pair of them, though the former is patently a misnomer and more resembles a sweet potato than anything else, though it is not mealy like a sweet potato, nor is it so sweet.

She herself resembled indeed a gigantic potatoe, and philologians might have conjectured that her very name was no more than a corruption of the adjective mealy.

Once they worked her over with the manicure prodders and eyebrow tweezers, curling tongs and earwax scoops, left her fermenting all afternoon in a mealy flour face mask, then finished her off with a delicate sponging of red ochre across the cheekbones and a fine gleam of antimony above the eyes, Helena Justina was bound to be presentable enough, even to me.

The cloth was resmoothed, the knives and forks straightened, a brace of mealy potatoes was emptied on the two plates that awaited them, and at last a ruddy slice of beefsteak was deposited beside and oozed through them its savoriness.

The turkey was always tough and stringy, the stuffing dry and mealy, the string beans underdone and a brilliant baking-soda green, the sweet potatoes too sweet and sticky with Karo.

Mealy, unpalatable fishes the like of which I have never before heard, with names like monkfish, cusk and hagfish.

The nicest tit-bits of the choicest dishes--the middle slices of the fish, the breast of the young ducks, and the wings of the chickens, the mealiest potatoes, the juiciest tomatoes, the tenderest roasting ear, the most delicate custard, and freshest fruit always for his reverence!

I find it hard to believe that Mealy or Sarah knows much of these matters.

It had consisted as usual of a damp mealy cake from a diet-synthesizer wrapped in two crisp leaflike growths from the salad-tree and a chunk of preserved allfruit about the size of his thumb.