skilly

` Three parts 'means three-quarters of a pint, and ` skilly' is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.

The Carter and the Carpenter

"skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.

THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER

"If you couldn't get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice 'ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better'n any one knows' ow to make now, reg'lar WHITE bread, gov'ment bread."

The War in the Air

Breakfast at 6: 00 A.M. might be bread and a gruel called "skilly" made with oatmeal or moldy meat.

Portrait of a Killer

"Three parts" means three-quarters of a pint, and "skilly" is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.

The People of the Abyss

It consisted of gruel, or, in prison parlance, "skilly," and another little brown loaf.

Prisoner for Blasphemy

The reader will understand the position better if I remind him that the only material preparation I had in the morning for the task of defending myself against Sir Hardinge Giffard and Mr. Maloney was six ounces of dry bread and a little thin cocoa, which the doctor had ordered instead of the "skilly" to stop my diarrhoea.

Prisoner for Blasphemy

To remove this evil influence, I was subjected to the following operation, which was prescribed and superintended by a neighbour "skilly" in such matters: -- A sixpence was borrowed from a neighbour, a good fire was kept burning in the grate, the door was locked, and I was placed upon a chair in front of the fire.

Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century

“If you couldn’t get it anywhere else, you could get it in the workhuss, a nice ‘ot bowl of soup called skilly, and bread better’n any one knows ‘ow to make now, reg’lar WHITE bread, gov’ment bread.”

The War in the Air

'skilly' includes all the indelicacies of the season, with champagne,

Oscar Wilde