skelln.¹

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skel.

Etymology: < Old Norse skel, = Old English scell shell n.

northern dialect. rare.

A shell.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > hard outer covering

skellc1330

pill1565

dermoskeleton1836

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14683 Luytel notes þey toke, &..dide y[n] þe schelles [v.r. skellis] fyr & tunder.

c1440 York Myst. ii. 65 Þe see now will I set within..Othir fysch to flet with fyne, sum with skale and sum with skell.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) (at cited word) Borrowdale nuts hes thin skells.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

skelln.²

/skɛl/

Etymology: Of uncertain origin; perhaps shortened < skeleton n.

U.S. slang.

In New York: a homeless person or derelict, esp. one who sleeps in the subway system.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless

Jack out of doors1603

stray1649

street boy1796

street urchin1827

Arab1847

street Arab1853

wastrel1877

street person1907

skell1955

scugnizzo1957

1955 T. Conway in Headquarters Detective Jan. 40 ‘Skels’, as the cops call big-city bums, come over from the Bowery to roost and doze.

1970 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. (Main section) 65/1 When one policeman says to another, ‘Did you collar the skell?’, he is asking, ‘Did you arrest the drunken derelict?’

1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. 21/3 Other New Yorkers live there [i.e. in the subway]..eating yesterday's bagels and sleeping on benches. The police in New York call such people ‘skells’.

1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. 21/3 These ‘skells’ are not merely down and out. Many are insane, chucked out of New York hospitals.

1988 Newsday (N.Y.) 22 Feb. 6 The delirious, crazy people whom cops call ‘skells’, the down-and-outs, the grungy and hopeless, garbage-heads who use any foreign substance known to man to alter reality.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	skell
释义	skelln.¹ Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skel. Etymology: < Old Norse skel, = Old English scell shell n. northern dialect. rare. A shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > hard outer covering skellc1330 pill1565 dermoskeleton1836 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14683 Luytel notes þey toke, &..dide y[n] þe schelles [v.r. skellis] fyr & tunder. c1440 York Myst. ii. 65 Þe see now will I set within..Othir fysch to flet with fyne, sum with skale and sum with skell. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) (at cited word) Borrowdale nuts hes thin skells. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020). skelln.² /skɛl/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin; perhaps shortened < skeleton n. U.S. slang. In New York: a homeless person or derelict, esp. one who sleeps in the subway system. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > homeless Jack out of doors1603 stray1649 street boy1796 street urchin1827 Arab1847 street Arab1853 wastrel1877 street person1907 skell1955 scugnizzo1957 1955 T. Conway in Headquarters Detective Jan. 40 ‘Skels’, as the cops call big-city bums, come over from the Bowery to roost and doze. 1970 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. (Main section) 65/1 When one policeman says to another, ‘Did you collar the skell?’, he is asking, ‘Did you arrest the drunken derelict?’ 1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. 21/3 Other New Yorkers live there [i.e. in the subway]..eating yesterday's bagels and sleeping on benches. The police in New York call such people ‘skells’. 1982 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 Jan. 21/3 These ‘skells’ are not merely down and out. Many are insane, chucked out of New York hospitals. 1988 Newsday (N.Y.) 22 Feb. 6 The delirious, crazy people whom cops call ‘skells’, the down-and-outs, the grungy and hopeless, garbage-heads who use any foreign substance known to man to alter reality. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.¹c1330n.²1955
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