As nouns the difference between skelly and skells
is that skelly is skully (the game) or skelly can be (uk|scotland|dialect) a squint while skells is .
As a verb skelly
is (uk|scotland|dialect) to squint.
skelly
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(-)
skully (the game)
Etymology 2
Noun
(skellies)
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A squint.
Verb
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To squint.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
(
Webster 1913)