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skelm

skelm is the alternative form of schelm.

Meaning of schelm

Noun

schelm (plural schelms)

  1. (Scotland) A villain or scoundrel.
    • Of her parents he knew nothing, except that "her father must have been a damned hundsfoot, and a schelm, for selling his own flesh and blood to Adrian Brackel;" […]1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 201

Forms of skelm

pluralskelms

Questions about skelm

What is skelm the alternative form of?
Skelm is the alternative form of schelm.

Words near skelm in the dictionary

  1. skellums
  2. skelly
  3. skellying
  4. Skellys
  5. Skellytown
  6. skelm
  7. Skelmanthorpe
  8. Skelmersdale
  9. skelms
  10. skelotogenesis
  11. skelp

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skelm (page history and authors); schelm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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