skilligalee slang.
(ˌskɪlɪgəˈliː)
Also skilla-, skillo-, skilly-, and -golee, -glee.
[prob. a purely fanciful formation.]
1. = skilly n.
| 1819 J. H. Vaux Mem. I. xviii. 202 Tolerable flour, of which the cook composed a certain food for breakfast, known among sailors by the name of skilligolee, being in plain English, paste. 1859 Sala Gaslight & D. xxx. 353 In some [Unions] they gives you bread and cheese, and in some broth, and in some skillygolee. 1872 M. Collins Pr. Clarice II. ii. 22 Aren't you afeard of being..committed for seven days on a diet of skilligalee? |
2. With negative: A single coin of the smallest value.
| 1833 Marryat P. Simple xii, But this is all nothing, except to prove satisfactorily that I am not worth a skillagalee. |
3. attrib. Worthless, trifling.
| 1883 Christian World 13 Dec. 870/1 The parsons were a poor skillygalee lot. |