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Skilly vs Skillo - What's the difference?

skilly | skillo |

As adjectives the difference between skilly and skillo

is that skilly is (scotland|northern england) skilled, skilful while skillo is great, excellent.

As a noun skilly

is (obsolete|nautical) skillygalee.

skilly

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete, nautical) Skillygalee.
  • * 1903 Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Macmillan
    • “I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and ‘three parts of skilly'.’ ‘Three parts’ means three-quarters of a pint, and ‘' skilly ’ is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.”

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland, northern England) Skilled, skilful.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 80:
  • *:So, being a fell impatient man, and skilly with his hands, he took Sam Gourlay a clout in the lug that couped him down in the stour […].

    • skillo

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • great, excellent
  • * 1988 , Dan Dare II'' (video game review in ''Your Sinclair issue 27, March 1988)
    • Dan Dare's back, and what a completely skillo follow-up to the original.
  • * 1990 , Competitions'' (in ''Sinclair User issue 94, January 1990)
    • Win A Mountain. Ooops, sorry, that should read win a Mountain Bike - gosh wow a brilliant skillo give away if ever there was.
  • * 2001 , "Tinman", Lazy and stupid : Help me do my shopping'' (on newsgroup ''alt.digitiser )
    • Anyway, I love the Jet Set Radio soundtrack (as well as the game) and in particular the tracks by Guitar Vader. So after a bunch of web browsing I found Guitar Vader are selling their skillo album 'Die Happy' on Mp3.com*(SIC).