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Skolled vs Skelled - What's the difference?

skolled | skelled |

As verbs the difference between skolled and skelled

is that skolled is (skol) while skelled is (skell).

skolled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (skol)

    • skol

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A drinking-toast; cheers.
  • * 1990 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘A Free Man with a Pipe’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), page 490:
    • Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol !’

    Verb

  • (AU, slang, transitive) To down (a drink).
  • * 2010 , Penelope Green, When in Rome: Chasing la dolce vita
    • When diners leave a quarter of a carafe full of house wine we put it above the sink to refill for new orders, but often I catch him skolling the remains of whatever he can get his hands on.
  • * 2011 , Richard Plant, Life's a Blur
    • The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.
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    skelled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (skell)

    • skell

    English

    Alternative forms

    *skel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, US, New York) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
  • :Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
  • (slang, US, New York) (informal police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler. (Compare scumbag.) Popularized on the American TV police drama NYPD Blue .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (skell)
  • (slang) To fall off or fall over
    • She went skelling over on the ice.

    References

    *The City in Slang, New York Life and Popular Speech , by Irving Lewis Allen, 1993.[http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~sepinwal/faq.html
  • skel]
    • *Dictionary of American Regional English , by Joan Houston Hall, 2002[http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/DYSADARE.html]