Examples
“The next two weeks will offer free clinics in rollerblading and skateboarding; other days will focus on paddleball, pogo sticking, and the bottle-cap game called skelly.”
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“A play street, the pavement marked with painted game grids, with the numbered spaces of hopscotch and skelly, bases for slapball, and Albert was delighted.”
“I thought I would have a quick skelly at the castle then find somewhere to sleep before it got dark.”
“Fuckin 'avalanches startin' fae the earth-shakin 'impact of this mighty stick gettin' stood on by some skelly bastart, or a fuckin 'deer.”
“She spotted the Lost Dog'skelly-green sail covers, so at least he wasn't out sailing.”
“A lake fish, called "ferras," a large species of the salmonid genus _Coregonus_, to which the skelly, powan, and vendayce of British lakes belong, is the commonest fish of the _table d'hôte_, and not very good.”
“I staggered down, a skelly-ton, to the railroad, and rode on the kyars to my farm, whar my wife lives sense she sold my house and lot in town, twelve miles outen Vicksburg.”
“(FYI: Gay marriage isn't legal in N.J., but the state does recognize same-sex civil unions.) 13th-Sep-2010 06: 09 pm (UTC) She looks like a skelly in that picture though.”
“The Tigers began the practice with special teams and moved to individual positions, before working on skelly drills and finishing with team periods.”
“WTF do you need a skelly key for really? jeffbakalar Crosby is a sugarbaby.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skelly’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Glancing Blows
glim, glink, glisk, glunch, twire, glint, asquint, fleer, gleek, keek, skelly, flick and 8 more...
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Hey! L...
for the same
ichthyarchy, thalassic, nip-cheese, cerement, manavalins, rockweed, polder, semipalmate, blue peter, curragh, crowfoot, cat and 160 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for skelly.
john “The asphalt battlefield known as a Skelly board has 13 numbers, one for each box where raw-knuckled players hunch over and flick wax-filled bottle tops as they vie for the title of Killer Diller. Generations of New Yorkers grew up playing this quintessential street game that required nothing more than bottle caps and chalk to draw the board.�?
The New York Times, Street Game Gets a Patent: Indoor Skelly, by David Gonzalez, January 1, 2008 Oct 19, 2008