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Stilly vs Skilly - What's the difference?

stilly | skilly |

As adjectives the difference between stilly and skilly

is that stilly is silent; calm while skilly is (scotland|northern england) skilled, skilful.

As an adverb stilly

is while still and calm.

As a noun skilly is

(obsolete|nautical) skillygalee.

stilly

English

Adjective

(head)
  • silent; calm
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879, author=Anthony Trollope, title=Thackeray, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs
  • * {{quote-book, year=1996, author=Stephen King, title=The Green Mile, chapter=4, edition=Pocket Books, url=
    • , passage= . . . Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.}}

    Adverb

    (-)
  • While still and calm
  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=George A. Lawrence, title=Guy Livingstone;, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She passed away very stilly and painlessly. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Mary Johnston, title=Audrey, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=S.R. Crockett, title=Bog-Myrtle and Peat, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board. }}

    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 […].