squammy
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From squamous + -y, where -ous was elided to extract the root. The reduplicated ⟨m⟩ is akin to runny, brimmy, etc. The Philippine slang sense is a semantic loan from Tagalog iskuwater, itself from Philippine English squatter (“poor vagrant; illegal informal settler”) due to resemblance of the first syllable. Compare Tagalog iskuwami.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈskweɪm.mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈskwɑːm.mi/
- (Philippines) IPA(key): /ˈskwaːm.mi/
- Rhymes: -eɪmi, -ɑmmi
Adjective
[edit]squammy (comparative squammier, superlative squammiest)
- (dated) Synonym of squamous (“Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.”)
- Synonyms: squamous, squamose, squamulose; see also Thesaurus:scaly
- Antonyms: esquamulose, scaleless
- (Philippines, colloquial, slang) trashy; classless; unrefined; crass; uncultured; vulgar; uncouth (lacking refinement)
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- English terms suffixed with -y
- English semantic loans from Tagalog
- English terms derived from Tagalog
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/eɪmi
- Rhymes:English/eɪmi/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑmmi
- Rhymes:English/ɑmmi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English dated terms
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- English slang