skilly
IPA: skˈɪɫi
noun
- (obsolete, nautical) Skillygalee.
adjective
- (Scotland, Northern England) Skilled, skilful.
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Examples of "skilly" in Sentences
- Don't be skilly,. in those times women often died giving birth.
- 'skilly' includes all the indelicacies of the season, with champagne,
- Many is known for his skilly touch at the net and wonderful backhands.
- I'll amend the IPA and add a sound file to help those with shaky IPA skilly.
- Taking the order and producing the steak is automatic because he is so skilly.
- It consisted of gruel, or, in prison parlance, "skilly," and another little brown loaf.
- Breakfast at 6: 00 A.M. might be bread and a gruel called "skilly" made with oatmeal or moldy meat.
- "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.
- "Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.
- ` Three parts 'means three-quarters of a pint, and ` skilly' is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.
- "If you couldn't get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice 'ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better'n any one knows' ow to make now, reg'lar WHITE bread, gov'ment bread."
- “If you couldn’t get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice ‘ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better’n any one knows ‘ow to make now, reg’lar WHITE bread, gov’ment bread.”
- To remove this evil influence, I was subjected to the following operation, which was prescribed and superintended by a neighbour "skilly" in such matters: -- A sixpence was borrowed from a neighbour, a good fire was kept burning in the grate, the door was locked, and I was placed upon a chair in front of the fire.
- The reader will understand the position better if I remind him that the only material preparation I had in the morning for the task of defending myself against Sir Hardinge Giffard and Mr. Maloney was six ounces of dry bread and a little thin cocoa, which the doctor had ordered instead of the "skilly" to stop my diarrhoea.