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skilligalee slang.|ˌskɪlɪgəˈliː|
Also skilla-, skillo-, skilly-, and -golee, -glee.
[prob. a purely fanciful formation.]
1. = skilly n.
1819J. H. Vaux Mem. I. xviii. 202 Tolerable flour, of which the cook composed a certain food for breakfast, known among sailors by the name of skilligolee, being in plain English, paste. 1859Sala Gaslight & D. xxx. 353 In some [Unions] they gives you bread and cheese, and in some broth, and in some skillygolee. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice II. ii. 22 Aren't you afeard of being..committed for seven days on a diet of skilligalee?
2. With negative: A single coin of the smallest value.
1833Marryat P. Simple xii, But this is all nothing, except to prove satisfactorily that I am not worth a skillagalee.
3. attrib. Worthless, trifling.
1883Christian World 13 Dec. 870/1 The parsons were a poor skillygalee lot. |