a. [f. VEAL sb.1]
1. Resembling veal.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 17. Then put in a few boiled forcemeat balls, which must be made of the veally part of your turtle.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 259. When we were fairly at anchor … they crawled out again,… their vealy faces mezzotinted with soot.
2. fig. Imperfectly developed; immature; characterized by youthful immaturity.
1890. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 17 July. A vealy medical-school graduate, whose employment is an insult to intelligent people.
1907. Outlook, 19 Jan., 80/1. The sylvan thief shared our vealy homage with moonlighters, smugglers [etc.].
Hence Vealiness, want of maturity.
1862. A. K. H. Boyd, Leisure Hours in Town, 221. Another manifestation of vealiness, which appears both in age and youth, is the entertaining a strong belief that kings, noblemen, and baronets, are always in a condition of ecstatic happiness.
1895. in Funk’s Stand. Dict.
