skelly1
/ˈskɛli
/Scottish
adjective
Cross-eyed.
noun (plural skellies)
A brief or hurried look: a skelly at the library...
- He takes a skelly at the massive gantry
- I took a skelly at the street door as I spoke.
- I took a skelly at him now and again.
verb (skellies, skellying, skellied) [no object]
Glance or squint at someone or something: I skellied round the shabby room...
- I skellied up and down the ward.
- All the way he kept skellying at his watch.
- I had to put up with him skellying at me as I was picking up some magazines.
Origin
Late 18th century: based on Old Norse skjálgr 'askew, oblique'.
skelly2
noun
Variant spelling of schelly.