Scully
Meaning
Verb
- To be skeptical toward (a person or situation) with ideas that do not coincide with conventional wisdom.
Origin
- Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.
- Named after Dana Scully, fictional FBI agent in the TV series The X-Files, who acts as a skeptical foil to the conspiracy theories of fellow agent Fox Mulder.
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