Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scoundrel; a worthless fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Scot. A scoundrel.
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- noun obsolete, UK A
scoundrel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, honestly, who rolls down their window when some skellum approaches their vehicle and knocks?
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Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a skellum of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army.
Greenmantle 2005
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'"It is the staff-map of one Stumm, a German _skellum_ who commands in yon city," I said.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a _skellum_ of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
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She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, [told, good-for-nothing]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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His sons and daughters were many, and all good, save for one sidelong skellum, Piet, his second son, who afterwards went to live among the
Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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"Baas! baas! we shut him up! we close da skellum up!"
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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"Baas! baas! we shut him up! we close da skellum up."
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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"Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da ` tsetse! '"
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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"Mein baas! mein baas! der duyvel um da -- dar skellum is da 'tsetse!'"
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
qms commented on the word skellum
Some think mental illness befell him.
I rather suspect
A cruder affect:
The Donald is simply a skellum.
August 21, 2016