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

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Example Sentences

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skilly

It's the skilly, it's the four-ounce system, I 'm afraid of.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

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 David Christie Murray

He tried to see himself making his own bed, and scrubbing his own floor, and standing at his cell door with a tin pot in his hand, waiting for his skilly.

From The Street Called Straight by Orson Lowell

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

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

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 Neil Munro

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