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skellied

skellied is the simple past and past participle of skelly.

Meaning of skelly

Verb

skelly (third-person singular simple present skellies, present participle skellying, simple past and past participle skellied)

  1. (Scotland) To squint.
    • "It is he—it is the very man," said Bothwell, "skellies fearfully with one eye?"1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...
  2. (Scotland) To look at

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Questions about skellied

What is skellied the simple past and past participle of?
Skellied is the simple past and past participle of skelly.

Words near skellied in the dictionary

  1. skellet
  2. skellet bell
  3. skellet bells
  4. Skelley
  5. Skelleys
  6. skellied
  7. skellies
  8. skelling
  9. Skellingthorpe
  10. skellington
  11. skellingtons

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