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comparative scalier, superlative scaliest
Covered or abounding with scales. examples
Composed of scales lying over each other. examples
Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. examples
(dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean. quotations examples
This done, he removed the hat; and having touched his forehead lightly with a silk handkerchief, for the afternoon sun was warm, gazed about him with a grave distaste. “A scaly neighbourhood!” he murmured. The young man’s judgment was one at which few people with an eye for beauty would have cavilled.
1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter II, in Leave It to Psmith
plural scalies
(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis). examples