skelly

Meanings

Noun

• A squint.
• A skeleton, especially a human one.
• skully (the game)

Verb

• To squint.

Origin

• , from Proto-Germanic *skilgijaną ("to squint"), from Proto-Germanic *skelhaz, *skelhwaz, *skelgaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- ("to bend; crook"). Compare Danish skele ("to squint"), Swedish skela ("to squint"), Scots skellie, scalie, skellice, German schielen ("to squint").
• From a -y.
• Variant of skully.