skilly
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of skilly
C19: shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation
Example Sentences
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It's the skilly, it's the four-ounce system, I 'm afraid of.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
“I say, do you have skilly for breakfast!”
From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Dadd, Frank
He dreads the prospect of daily exercise on the treadmill, he loathes the idea of picking oakum, and his gorge rises at the thought of brown bread and skilly.
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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
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
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