squallery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

squall +‎ -ery

Noun[edit]

squallery (uncountable)

  1. squalling
    • 1827, The Atheneum, volume 21, page 163:
      And he had a wife, was the plague of his life, / With her squallery, bawlery, ho!
    • 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
      The rising of the curtain drew his habitual groan from Potts, and he fled to collogue with the goodly number of honest fellows in the house of music who detested 'squallery.
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