skilly
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of skilly
C19: shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation
Example Sentences
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In payment for his lodging, his two chunks of dry bread and his pint of skilly, he had been compelled to pick his quantum of oakum.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
“I do not know what skilly is,” replied Helen.
From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Dadd, Frank
A very shifty fellow, Pomfret, with a face the colour of skilly.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley
For there may come a moment when You shall be mended, willy-nilly, With many more misguided men, Whose skill is undermined with skilly.
From Verse and Worse by Graham, Harry
The skilly was in my stomach when I saw Raffles's face.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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