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skellying

skellying is the present participle and gerund 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 skellying

What is skellying the present participle and gerund of?
Skellying is the present participle and gerund of skelly.

Words near skellying in the dictionary

  1. Skellow
  2. skells
  3. skellum
  4. skellums
  5. skelly
  6. skellying
  7. Skellys
  8. Skellytown
  9. skelm
  10. Skelmanthorpe
  11. Skelmersdale

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