skeely

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English

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Etymology

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From Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly.

Adjective

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skeely (comparative skeelier, superlative skeeliest)

  1. (Scotland) Skilful.
    • 1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 27:
      “I now enjoy more flattering company than you ever provided—a fine, fine woman, McCandless, who owes her life to these fingers of mine—these skeely, skeely fingers!”

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