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

Now and then he turned a little in his sleep, dreaming perhaps of feasts in Cockayne, perhaps of the skilly he had tasted in gaol, of love perhaps, bright-eyed, master of the gates.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

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 Lowell, Orson

“I say, do you have skilly for breakfast!”

From Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel by Dadd, Frank

The dinner was revolting, but recognising that I was considered to be a criminal, and as such was condemned to prison fare I ventured to taste the nauseous skilly.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles

It fell in the dusk of the night When unco things betide, The skilly captain, the Cameron, Went down to that waterside.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis