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Definition of 'skilly'English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation.
Noun
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(obsolete|nautical) Skillygalee.
* 1903 Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Macmillan
- “I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and ‘three parts of skilly'.’ ‘Three parts’ means three-quarters of a pint, and ‘' skilly ’ is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.”
Etymology 2
From .
Adjective
( en-adj)
(Scotland|northern England) Skilled, skilful.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 80:
*:So, being a fell impatient man, and skilly with his hands, he took Sam Gourlay a clout in the lug that couped him down in the stour […].
Similar to 'skilly'silly, sally, scaly, scally, sully, squally, shyly, showily, salley, seely, skully, skelly, shelly, shaly, shaley, skeely, sallowy, schooly, solly, soily, shily, saily, shoaly, schelly, solwy, scowly, scowlly, selly, scaley, sheely, scholy
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