Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To squint.
- noun A squint.
- noun A fish, the chub.
- Squinting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To squint.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A squint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
skully (the game) - noun UK, Scotland, dialect A
squint .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word skelly.
Examples
-
The next two weeks will offer free clinics in rollerblading and skateboarding; other days will focus on paddleball, pogo sticking, and the bottle-cap game called skelly.
-
A play street, the pavement marked with painted game grids, with the numbered spaces of hopscotch and skelly, bases for slapball, and Albert was delighted.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
-
A play street, the pavement marked with painted game grids, with the numbered spaces of hopscotch and skelly, bases for slapball, and Albert was delighted.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
-
I thought I would have a quick skelly at the castle then find somewhere to sleep before it got dark.
-
A play street, the pavement marked with painted game grids, with the numbered spaces of hopscotch and skelly, bases for slapball, and Albert was delighted.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
-
Fuckin 'avalanches startin' fae the earth-shakin 'impact of this mighty stick gettin' stood on by some skelly bastart, or a fuckin 'deer.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
-
She spotted the Lost Dog'skelly-green sail covers, so at least he wasn't out sailing.
The Night Crew Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1997
-
A lake fish, called "ferras," a large species of the salmonid genus _Coregonus_, to which the skelly, powan, and vendayce of British lakes belong, is the commonest fish of the _table d'hôte_, and not very good.
-
I staggered down, a skelly-ton, to the railroad, and rode on the kyars to my farm, whar my wife lives sense she sold my house and lot in town, twelve miles outen Vicksburg.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
-
(FYI: Gay marriage isn't legal in N.J., but the state does recognize same-sex civil unions.) 13th-Sep-2010 06: 09 pm (UTC) She looks like a skelly in that picture though.
Oh No They Didn't! 2010
john commented on the word skelly
“The asphalt battlefield known as a Skelly board has 13 numbers, one for each box where raw-knuckled players hunch over and flick wax-filled bottle tops as they vie for the title of Killer Diller. Generations of New Yorkers grew up playing this quintessential street game that required nothing more than bottle caps and chalk to draw the board.�?
The New York Times, Street Game Gets a Patent: Indoor Skelly, by David Gonzalez, January 1, 2008
October 20, 2008