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单词 skilligalee
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skilligaleen.

/ˌskɪlɪɡəˈliː/
Forms: Also skillagalee, skillogalee, skillygalee, and skilligolee, skilliglee.
Etymology: probably a purely fanciful formation.
slang.
1. = skilly n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
1819 J. H. Vaux Memoirs I. xviii. 202 Tolerable flour, of which the cook composed a certain food for breakfast, known among sailors by the name of skilligolee, being in plain English, paste.
1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight xxx. 353 In some [Unions] they gives you bread and cheese, and in some broth, and in some skillygolee.
1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice II. ii. 22 Aren't you afeard of being..committed for seven days on a diet of skilligalee?
2. With negative: A single coin of the smallest value.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > coin as type of
pennya1225
sumc1300
mitea1375
minutec1384
groat1513
souse1570
widow's mite1572
stivera1640
brass farthing1642
shilling1737
rap1778
skilligalee1834
skillick1835
steever1892
razoo1919
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xii. 160 But this is all nothing, except to prove satisfactorily that I am not worth a skillagalee.
3. attributive. Worthless, trifling.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless
naughteOE
unworthc960
nought worthOE
unworthya1240
vaina1300
lewd1362
base?1510
to be nothing toc1520
stark naught1528
nothing worth1535
worthilessa1542
draffish1543
baggage1548
dunghill?1555
valureless1563
toyish1572
worthless1573
out (forth) of door (also doors)1574
leaden1577
riff-raff1577
drafty1582
fecklessc1586
dudgeon?1589
nought-worth1589
tenpenny1592
wanwordy?a1595
shotten herring1598
nugatory1603
unvalued1604
priceless1614
unvaluable1615
valuelessa1616
waste1616
trashya1620
draffy1624
stramineous1624
invaluable1640
roly-poly?1645
nugatorious1646
perquisquilian1647
niffling1649
lazy1671
wanworth1724
little wortha1754
flimsy1756
waff1788
null1790
nothingy1801
nothingly1802
twopenny-halfpenny1809
not worth a flaw1810
garbage1817
peanut1836
duffing1839
trash1843
no-account1845
no-count1851
punky1859
rummagy1872
junky1880
skilligalee1883
footle1894
punk1896
wherry-go-nimble1901
junk1908
rinky-dink1913
schlock1916
tripe1927
duff1938
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
expendable1942
(strictly) for the birds1943
tripey1955
schlocky1960
naff1964
dipshit1968
cack1978
1883 Christian World 13 Dec. 870/1 The parsons were a poor skillygalee lot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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