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▪ I. skilly, n.|ˈskɪlɪ|
Also 9 skilley.
[Abbreviation of skilligalee.]
1. A kind of thin, watery porridge, gruel, or soup, commonly made from oatmeal, and traditionally used especially in prisons and workhouses.
1839Slang Dict. 33 Skilley, nickname for a broth given on board the hulks. 1846Camp & Barrack-Room ii. 16 Jack Skilly, a title given in consequence of his being the dispenser of skilly to patients. 1865Daily Telegr. 27 Oct. 4/5 That ‘skilly’ formed the traditional staple of workhouse dietary under the New Poor Law, we are well aware. 1894D. C. Murray Making of a Novelist 97 Gentlemen who have tasted workhouse skilly and soup.
2. transf. An insipid beverage; tea or coffee. Also attrib. and Comb. Chiefly Naut. slang.
1927[see madam n. 3 c (e)]. 1933J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 214 The skilly-can, which may have contained a hot drink of some sort, was rolling with the whack-pots. 1935― Victorious Troy 37 There was a big old battered tin coffee pot containing skilly, or a brown, hot liquid, which the crew called ‘tea’ at night, and ‘coffee’ in the morning. 1936B. Adams Ships & Women iii. 59 They said it was tea. Skilly, they called it. 1953J. Masefield Conway (ed. 2) iii. 250 A cup of skilly completed the repast.
▪ II. skilly, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈskɪlɪ|
Also 9 skeely, skeily.
[f. skill n.1 + -y.]
Skilled, skilful; having considerable skill in some respect.
α1768Ross Helenore ii. 90 Upo' your milk your skilly hand ye'll try, An' gees a feast o't as we're coming by. 1790Shirrefs Poems 51 Her apron shortens to the skilly ee. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 91 A gash skilly body, weel kent near and far. 1903Daily Record & Mail 10 July 5 For the past few weeks Greenock has been the happy hunting ground of the skilly cracksman.
βa1803Sir P. Spens i. in Scott Minstrelsy, O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine? 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2) s.v., The doctress of a country village is skeely. 1863J. L. W. Bygone Days 42 Tibbie..confessed he was a ‘skeely’ man, John; for he cured her cow. |