skillenton

English

Noun

skillenton (plural skillentons)

1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of skeleton.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

     There’s not a man in the county o’ South-Wessex that’s got grander and nobler skillentons in his family than I.