How to pronounce “measly”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms). [from late 16th c.]
• Of a person: infected with measles.
• (figuratively, informal) Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount. [from mid 19th c.]

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Similar Sounds

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