skilly
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of skilly
C19: shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It will be skilly and bread for us if the mine fails.”
From Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea by Hal Hurst
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
Now come and have a look at my cucumber house, and then—ha, ha, ha! there’s something better than skilly for dinner, my boy.”
From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by George Manville Fenn
I differ with you there, neighbour," replied the dominie; "for there is no calculating the value that clever and skilly hands can give to rude materials.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
It was skilly in the fullest sense of the word.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Henry Charles Mahoney
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
