Meaning

4 senses
  1. Covered or abounding with scales.

    a scaly fish a scaly stem

    schuppig

    чешу́йчатыйčešújčatyj

    rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

  2. Composed of scales lying over each other.

    a scaly bulb

  3. Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.

    чешу́йчатыйčešújčatyj

  4. (South Africa, dated, vulgar)Low, mean.

    a scaly fellow

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I'm a scaly, not a furry.

    Я скейлі, не фурі.

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  2. Some reptiles have a plain body, others a scaly body.

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  3. Some sardines are not scaly at all while others are very scaly.

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  4. A scaly is like a furry whose "fursona" is a reptile or amphibian.

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  5. They said that there are green and scaly merfolk in the sea here.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English scali, skaly. By surface analysis, scale + -y.

From Middle English scali, skaly. By surface analysis, scale + -y.

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Forms

scalier, scaliest
Comparativescalier Lesson
Superlativescaliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
covered with scales:lepidoteleprose
Close in meaning

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

19 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scaly — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto