vealy

[ vee-lee ]

adjective

1. resembling veal.
2. Informal. young or immature:

   a vealy youth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vealy¹

First recorded in 1760–70; veal + -y ¹

Example Sentences

That time I regard as my vealy period That was the time when we admired “Somnambula,” and when the housewife used to have all the pictures hung on the same level, and to buy vases in pairs exactly alike and put them on either side of the parlor clock, which was generally surmounted by a prancing Saracen or a weaving Penelope.

From Project Gutenberg

You've scooped the vealy city crowd Of glory and of purse— Why shouldn't Pegasus be proud To trot you out in a verse?

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But much of the time The Heat's On is less prodigal than vealy.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I look back at that sermon now it must have been pretty vealy, but I was well pleased with it then, and my host praised it so enthusiastically on the way home that I felt tolerably sure of an invitation to occupy the rectory.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr Samuel Chute felt in that disposition of mind which comes over most young men some time in their vealy stage, when the whole world is looked upon as going dead against them, because they cannot possess some one particular object; when they rapidly run over the various courses that seem alone open to them, and which embrace enlisting, going to sea, to the dogs, or plunging into a river or canal—at a time when a man is handy with a boat-hook to fish them out.

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