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单词 skilly
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skillyn.

Brit. /ˈskɪli/, U.S. /ˈskɪli/
Forms: Also 1800s skilley.
Etymology: Abbreviation of skilligalee n.
1. A kind of thin, watery porridge, gruel, or soup, commonly made from oatmeal, and traditionally used especially in prisons and workhouses.
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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-
1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Skilley, nickname for a broth given on board the hulks.
1846 J. M. MacMullen Camp & Barrack-room ii. 16 Jack Skilly, a title given in consequence of his being the dispenser of skilly to patients.
1865 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 4/5 That ‘skilly’ formed the traditional staple of workhouse dietary under the New Poor Law, we are well aware.
1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 97 Gentlemen who have tasted workhouse skilly and soup.
2. transferred. An insipid beverage; tea or coffee. Also attributive and in other combinations. Chiefly Nautical slang.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > weak tea
water bewitched1591
cat-lap1785
blash1835
skilly1927
the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > weak coffee
skilly1927
cafe Americano1964
1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent xvii. 218 ‘I was getting a hundred quid for this job..and I couldn't turn him down.’ ‘The usual “madam”!’ sneered the inspector. ‘It's not “madam”, Mr. Brown,’ said Jerry earnestly, ‘though I admit it sounds as likely as cream in skilly; but it's true.’
1933 J. 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 J. Masefield 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.
1936 B. M. Adams Ships & Women iii. 59 They said it was tea. Skilly, they called it.
1953 J. Masefield Conway (ed. 2) iii. 250 A cup of skilly completed the repast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

skillyadj.

Brit. /ˈskɪli/, U.S. /ˈskɪli/, Scottish English /ˈskɪlɪ/
Forms: Also 1800s skeely, skeily.
Etymology: < skill n.1 + -y suffix1.
Scottish and northern dialect.
Skilled, skilful; having considerable skill in some respect.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [adjective]
prettyOE
hagherc1175
slyc1175
skilful1338
cunning1382
subtlec1390
subtilea1393
appertise1484
sleighta1513
practicatec1550
skilled1552
right-sided1575
canny1628
skilly1768
Oorlam1881
heads up1913
shit-hot1942
multi-skill1970
α.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 90 Upo' your milk your skilly hand ye'll try, An' gees a feast o't as we're coming by.
1790 A. Shirrefs Poems 51 Her apron shortens to the skilly ee.
1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 91 A gash skilly body, weel kent near and far.
1903 Daily Record (Glasgow) 10 July 5 For the past few weeks Greenock has been the happy hunting ground of the skilly cracksman.
β. 1803 Sir Patrick Spens in Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 64 O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The doctress of a country village is skeely.1863 J. L. W. By-gone Days 42 Tibbie..confessed he was a ‘skeely’ man, John; for he cured her cow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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