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skilly

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skilly [ˈskɪlɪ]
n
(Cookery) Chiefly Brit a thin soup or gruel
[shortened from skilligallee, probably a fanciful formation]
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Noun1.skilly - a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat)
gruel - a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)


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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 by Wells, H.G. View in context
And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood Scrubbs, and tightened my belt in a Holloway attic, it was I who sat down to this ineffable repast
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
They've got you every way you turn: it's a choice between the Skilly of the workhouse and the Char Bydis of the middle class; and I haven't the nerve for the workhouse.
Pygmalion by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
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