Squally

·adj Interrupted by unproductive spots;

— said of a flied of turnips or grain.

II. Squally ·adj Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty;

— said of cloth.

III. Squally ·adj Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

squally
Windy; gusty. A sailor's word.--Johnson. It is often used by us in a figurative sense; so that to lo...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.