skeely
English edit
Etymology edit
Scots skeely, Scottish form of skilly.
Adjective edit
skeely (comparative skeelier, superlative skeeliest)
- (Scotland) Skilful.
- 1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 27:
- “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!”