different between stormy vs squally

English

Etymology

From Middle English stormy, stormi, from Old English stormi? (“stormy”), equivalent to storm +? -y. Cognate with Dutch stormig (“stormy”), German stürmig (“stormy”), Swedish stormig (“stormy”).

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: stôr'm?, IPA^(key): /?st??mi/
• Rhymes: -??(?)mi

Adjective

stormy (comparative stormier, superlative stormiest)

1. Of or pertaining to storms.
2. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.

   a stormy season or a stormy day

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]

     Fabio Capello insisted Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.

3. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.

   a stormy sound or stormy shocks

4. Violent; passionate; rough.

   stormy passions

Synonyms

• storm-wracked

Antonyms

• calm

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• stormi, storemig, sturmy

Etymology

Inherited from Old English stormi?; equivalent to storm +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?rmi?/

Adjective

stormy

1. Affected by an instance of intense wind and precipitation; stormy.
2. Indecisive, fluctuating, inconsistent; lacking consistency or decisiveness.
3. Fractious or warring; affected by conflicts or disputes.
4. (rare) Bringing retribution.

Descendants

• English: stormy
• Scots: stormy

References

• “storm?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-08.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skw??li/

Etymology 1

From squall +? -y; from 1719.

Adjective

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

1. Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.
   • 1759, John Lindsay, A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758, page 107:

     On the eighth of February the winds grew ?trong and ?qually, accompanied with rain and a north-we?t ?well; […] .

   • 1824, John Davy, Observations on the Specific Gravity and Temperature of Sea-Water, Made During a Voyage from Ceylon to England, in 1819 and 1820, David Brewster, Robert Jameson (editors), The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 10, page 319:

     Feb. 9. 1820. […] The night was rather squally and cloudy, with occasional showers.

   • 2011, Mary Maclaren, The Four Elizabeths, Xlibris (2011), ?ISBN, page 138:

     Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.

2. Producing or characteristic of loud wails.
   • 1953, Annemarie Selinko, Désirée, William Morrow & Company (1953), page 161:

     Something whimpered in the room—high and squally.

   • 1984, Bernard Evslin, Hercules, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     One baby was three times as big as his brother and different in other ways. He wasn't bald and squinched and squally like most infants, but had a nimbus of red-gold hair and huge gray eyes and lay there smiling to himself.

   • 2012, Ferida Wolff, "Not My Father's Son", in Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul: Celebrating the Bond That Connects Generations, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     “Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a son.”

     When I was born, he very quickly saw that I was a scrawny, squally baby girl. I was not a Buick, and I was not his son.

Synonyms

• squallish

Derived terms

• squalliness

Etymology 2

Probably related to scall +? -y.

Adjective

squally (comparative squallier or more squally, superlative squalliest or most squally)

1. (Britain, obsolete) Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
2. (weaving, of cloth) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.
   • 1763, Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth, Volume VI, Joseph Bentham (1763), page 98:

     It is enacted, That if at any time after the first day of May, any cloth or ker?ie, through the default or negligence of the carders, spinners or weavers, or any of them, shall or do prove pursy, cockly, bandy, squally or rowy by warp or woof, […]