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adjective

measly adj.

Infected with measles.

(Zool.) Containing larval tapeworms; said of pork and beef.

Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly insufficient or bad; as, a measly few dollars for all that work.

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Etymology of 'Measly'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Measly" Quotes from Famous Books

... for nothing more than indigestion and nervousness. These latter parasites are, however, formidable in so far as their size is concerned. The mature pork tapeworm is about ten feet long, although the eggs, seen in the pork flesh, giving it its name of "measly," are only about a thousandth of an inch in diameter. The fish tapeworm, when mature, measures about twenty-five feet in length, while the beef tapeworm is about the same length. These worms can develop only in the bodies of the animals named, and find their way into the human body only ...

— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

... has no fear of 'tater bugs, Or cultivation's errors, The measly scale from San Jose, And ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... the providential intervention of several stiff cocktails. (I am theoretically a prohibitionist, but grateful to the enemy for having saved my life.) The black cloud that shut out all sunlight was our measly total for December—$18.07. ...

— If You Don't Write Fiction • Charles Phelps Cushing

... sweeps. Hillingdon, with his solemn, stone-jug-like face, I know to be a most infernal rogue. He fakes the firm's accounts to the detriment of the London people who are paying the piper, and who are really the firm. As for Sam Chard and this measly, sneaking, Danish skipper, they are merely minor thieves. But I didn't do so badly with them, ...

— Tessa - 1901 • Louis Becke

... are so minded pursue this latter game But not repine if they should lose a boodle in the same; For an example to you all one paragon should serve— He towers a very monument to valor and to nerve; No bob-tail flush, no nine-spot high, no measly pair can wring A groan of ...

— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field

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