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Spilly vs Skilly - What's the difference?

spilly | skilly |

As adjectives the difference between spilly and skilly

is that spilly is prone to spilling while skilly is (scotland|northern england) skilled, skilful.

As a noun skilly is

(obsolete|nautical) skillygalee.

spilly

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Prone to spilling.
  • * 1980 , Fannie Hurst, Anatomy of me
  • *:Then Jeffry, with heavy-handed humor which ill became him, complained within her hearing that most of his oyster stew, spilly food which he had intentionally ordered, had poured over into his coffee.
  • * 2007 , Mavis Kirkham, Exploring the dirty side of women's health
  • *:[He was] very windy, and he was very spilly right from the beginning. Just really spilly after every feed, numerous clothing changes for him and for me.

    • 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 […].