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Stell vs Skell - What's the difference?

stell | skell |

As verbs the difference between stell and skell

is that stell is while skell is (slang) to fall off or fall over.

As an adjective stell

is quiet, silent, calm.

As a noun skell is

(slang|us|new york) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the new york subway.

stell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) stellen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To set; place; fix.
  • * 1609 , Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets :
    • Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; [...]
  • To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of (stall), after the verb (term).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A place; station.
  • A stall; a fold for cattle.
  • (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.
    • Related terms
    * (l) ----

    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]