skilly
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of skilly
C19: shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation
Example Sentences
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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
I encounter, in the newspapers, gentlemen who have tasted workhouse skilly and soup, and who like it, and consider it well made and nourishing.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
For there may come a moment when You shall be mended willy-nilly, With many more misguided men, Whose skill is undermined with skilly.
From Perverted Proverbs A Manual of Immorals for the Many by Harry Graham
For there may come a moment when You shall be mended, willy-nilly, With many more misguided men, Whose skill is undermined with skilly.
From Verse and Worse by Harry Graham
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 G. W. (George William) Foote
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