Definition of Skellied

1. skellie [v] - See also: skellie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skellied

skeletonize
skeletonized
skeletonizer
skeletonizers
skeletonizes
skeletonizing
skeletonlike
skeletons
skeletons in the closet
skeletons in the cupboard
skelf
skelfs
skell
skelled
skellie
skellied (current term)
skellier
skellies
skelliest
skelling
skellington
skellingtons
skelloch
skellochs
skells
skellum
skellums
skelly
skelm
skelms

Literary usage of Skellied

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"skellied may be viewed as the same compound abbreviated in the pronunciation ; whereas, strictly perhaps, ..."

2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"skellied, adj. Squinting. Joe. Relia. SKELLIE-EE'D, adj. Having the eyes placed a little obliquely, Clydes. SKELLIE-MAN, «. A bellman or public crier, Lan. ..."

3. A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian: With Extracts from His Son's Journal by Julian Charles Young (1871)
"... Scott's description of Balfour o' Burley (' he skellied fearfully wi' one eye'), he was the most picturesque and imposing person I have ever seen. ..."

4. The Scottish Songs by Robert Chambers (1829)
"... And skellied Jock, and bellied Jock, And curly Jock, and burly Jock, And lying Jock himsell. ..."

5. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1870)
"A woman could hardly put away her spouse because he skellied, (ie, was cross-eyed), or because she took a scunner at him, (disliked him, in plain English), ..."

6. Diaries of a Lady of Quality from 1797 to 1844 by Frances Williams-Wynn (1864)
"Like Balfour of Burley, he ' skellied fearfully with one eye,' if not with both, but lost no favour on that account. When Wilkes's obliquity of vision was ..."

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