Foul vs Squally - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between foul and squally

is that foul is covered with, or containing unclean matter; polluted; nasty; defiled while squally is characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.

As a verb foul

is to make dirty.

As a noun foul

is a breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

foul

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Adjective

(er)

Covered with, or containing unclean matter; polluted; nasty; defiled

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obscene or profane; abusive.

Hateful; detestable; unpleasant

* Milton

Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

(obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.

* Shakespeare

Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.

Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.

* Shakespeare

So foul a sky clears not without a storm.

Not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating.

(nautical) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; - opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

Usage notes

* Nouns to which "foul" is often applied: play, ball, language, breath, smell, odor, water, weather, deed.

Synonyms

* shameful; odious; wretched

Derived terms

* afoul * befoul * fall foul * nonfoul * nonfouling

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To make dirty.

to foul the face or hands with mire

She's fouled her diaper.

To besmirch.

He's fouled his reputation.

To clog or obstruct.

The hair has fouled the drain.

(nautical) To entangle.

The kelp has fouled the prop.

(basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.

Smith fouled him hard.

(baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.

To become clogged.

''The drain fouled .

To become entangled.

The prop fouled on the kelp.

(basketball) To commit a foul.

Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter.

(baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled for strike one.

Noun

(en noun)

(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

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(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.

(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

Jones hit a foul up over the screen.

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squally

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

Characterized by squalls, or sudden violent bursts of wind; gusty.

* 1759 , John Lindsay, A Voyage to the Coast of Africa, In 1758 , page 107:

On the eighth of February the winds grew ?trong and ?qually , accompanied with rain and a north-we?t ?well;.

* 1824 , John Davy, Observations on the Specific Gravity and Temperature of Sea-Water, Made During a Voyage from Ceylon to England, in 1819 and 1820'', David Brewster, Robert Jameson (editors), ''The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 10, page 319:

Feb. 9. 1820.The night was rather squally and cloudy, with occasional showers.

* 2011 , Mary Maclaren, The Four Elizabeths , Xlibris (2011), ISBN 9781456853723, page 138:

Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.

Producing or characteristic of loud wails.

* 1953 , Annemarie Selinko, Désirée , William Morrow & Company (1953), page 161:

Something whimpered in the room—high and squally .

* 1984 , Bernard Evslin, Hercules , Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ISBN 9781453264478, unnumbered page:

One baby was three times as big as his brother and different in other ways. He wasn't bald and squinched and squally like most infants, but had a nimbus of red-gold hair and huge gray eyes and lay there smiling to himself.

* 2012 , Ferida Wolff, "Not My Father's Son", in Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul: Celebrating the Bond That Connects Generations , Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ISBN 9781453274910, unnumbered page:

“Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a son.”

When I was born, he very quickly saw that I was a scrawny, squally baby girl. I was not a Buick, and I was not his son.

(UK, dialect) Interrupted by unproductive spots, as a field of turnips or grain.

(Halliwell)

(weaving, of cloth) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty.

* 1763 , Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large, From the First Year of Q. Mary to the Thirty-Fifth Year of Q. Elizabeth , Volume VI, Joseph Bentham (1763), page 98:

It is enacted, That if at any time after the first day of May , any cloth or ker?ie, through the default or negligence of the carders, spinners or weavers, or any of them, shall or do prove purfy, cockly, bandy, squally or rowy by warp or woof,

Synonyms

* squallish

Derived terms

* squalliness