Log in or Sign up
  1. skelf love

Did you possibly mean one of these? self, shelf

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found.

Examples

  • “But a mere skelf of a girl beating up another one on a busy street shouln't last seconds before someone gets involved.”

    Pushing an elephant up the stairs....

  • “Despite the distraction of pain, his detective skills had successfully decoded the human skelf 's eponymous, punctuatory ejaculation.”

    Boiling a Frog

  • “It was howkit oot -- whether oot o 'hard yird or saft stane, I dinna ken; I reckon it wud be some no sae hard kin' o 'a rock -- and whan the deid was laid intil 't, they biggit up the mou o' the place, that is, frae that same skelf to the ane 'at was abune 't, and sae a' was weel closed in. ”

    Heather and Snow

  • “It wasna an ill w'y to beery fowk, nor an ill place to gang til, for they aye biggit up the skelf, ye ken.”

    Heather and Snow

  • “They're her beuks maistly upo 'the skelf there abune yer ain, Mr. Sutherlan'.”

    David Elginbrod

  • “Hewson, an honest cottar, wi 'Shakspeare an' the Arabian Nichts upo 'a skelf i' the hoose wi '' im.”

    Robert Falconer

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘skelf’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • karensa Scots for a splinter of wood that has gone into the skin. Aug 19, 2009

  • qroqqa No stars in this black sky, no moon to speak of, no name
    or number to the hour, no skelf of light.
    —Carol Ann Duffy, 'Over' Jun 3, 2009

  • travismcdermott c1610 J. MELVILLE Mem. (1827) 24 They wer hurt..with skelves of stanes be the force of our battery. Ibid. 84 The King Hendre 2 being hurt in the head with the skelv of a spair. Apr 9, 2008

Tweets

Looking for tweets for skelf.

‘skelf’ has been looked up 1385 times, added to 10 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.