measly

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms).

   “Then take five or six apples, pick out the cores and fill up the holes thus made with flour of brimstone; stop up the holes and cast in the apples to the measly hog.”

2. sıfat Of a person: infected with measles.

   “A measly boy, he looked like a tramp, probably one of the street boys from the village, just walked up here and made himself at home, and when I told him to leave, he wouldn't.”

3. sıfat Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.

   “For one whole day's work all I was given was twenty measly pounds.”