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Definition of 'skellum'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete|UK) A scoundrel.
* Samuel Pepys' Diary - Friday 3 April 1663
- Dr. Creeton, [Robert Creighton] the Scotchman, ripped up Hugh Peters (calling him the execrable skellum ), his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles.
* Robert Burns, Tam O' Shanter (lines 17-22)
- O Tam! had'st thou but been sae wise,
As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum ,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
That frae November till October,
Ae market-day thou was na sober.
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