measly

UK /ˈmiːzli/ US /ˈmizli/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

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

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

Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount.

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

The visiting tourists eagerly forked over a measly two dollars per group to their guides as payment for their services. This amount was measly sum to the givers, but a princely sum to the takers.

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