▪ I. skelloch, n.1 Sc.
(ˈskɛləx)
Also 9 skellach, skellock, skillock.
[Obscurely related to kellock kedlock: cf. also the earlier skeldock. The Gael. sgeallag is prob. from Sc.]
Wild mustard, Sinapis arvensis. Also, wild radish (Jamieson).
| 1743 Maxwell Sel. Transact. 80 This Ground, if it is much dunged, runs excessively to Runches, Skellochs, etc. c 1800 H. Macneill Poems (1844) 55 The skelloch bright 'mang corn sae green. 1817 Blackw. Mag. II. 235 He sows his barley early, and it is choked by runches and skelloch. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 202 His patches of corn bloomed a bright yellow with the ancient ‘skellach’. |
▪ II. skelloch, n.2 Sc.
(ˈskɛləx)
Also skellock.
[Cf. skelloch v.]
A shrill cry; a scream, shriek.
| 1808 Jamieson, Skelloch, a shrill cry, a squawl. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, Bang gaed the knight's pistol, and Hutcheon, that held the ladder, and my gudesire.., hears a loud skelloch. 1894 Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 166 Did ye think the bit stot was the Foul Thief himsel' that ye gied that skelloch! |
▪ III. skelloch, v. Sc.
(ˈskɛləx)
[prob. imitative.]
intr. To shriek, yell; to resound shrilly.
| 1808 Jamieson, To Skelloch, to cry with a shrill voice. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 180 [He] skelloch'd at ane awfu' rate, As onie man in sic a state Would do. 1901 G. Douglas House w. Green Shutters 124 Her laugh went skelloching up the street. |