skilly

British  

/ ˈskɪlɪ /

noun

1. a thin soup or gruel

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Etymology

Origin of skilly

C19: shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation

Example Sentences

We took him to a cothouse down at the foot of the wood, where he lay while a boy was sent for a skilly woman.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

They came on in a sort of echelon of four companies, close ordered, and not as a more skilly commander would make them, and the leading company took the right.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Dry as toke and skilly, Is this arid Piccadilly, Notwithstanding rose and lily, All the beauteous blooms of Scilly, Reft of that flower of flowers—Milly.

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

Oor Jock's gude mither's second man At banes was unco skilly; It cam' by heirskep frae an aunt, Leeb Tod o' Nether Tillie.

From The Auld Doctor and other Poems and Songs in Scots by Rorie, David

"Same as you had before—bread and water, and skilly o' Sundays!"

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)