"skeely" meaning in All languages combined

See skeely on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: skeelier [comparative], skeeliest [superlative]
Etymology: From Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sco|skeely}} Scots skeely Head templates: {{en-adj|skeelier}} skeely (comparative skeelier, superlative skeeliest)
  1. (Scotland) Skilful. Tags: Scotland

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sco",
        "3": "skeely"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots skeely",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skeelier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skeeliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "skeelier"
      },
      "expansion": "skeely (comparative skeelier, superlative skeeliest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 27:",
          "text": "“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!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Skilful."
      ],
      "id": "en-skeely-en-adj-BRueXe~7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Skilful",
          "skilful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Skilful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skeely"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sco",
        "3": "skeely"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots skeely",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skeelier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skeeliest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "skeelier"
      },
      "expansion": "skeely (comparative skeelier, superlative skeeliest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Scots",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 27:",
          "text": "“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!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Skilful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Skilful",
          "skilful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) Skilful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skeely"
}

Download raw JSONL data for skeely meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.