Noun: skellum
| Singular | skellum |
| Plural | skellums |
Sample Sentences
-
Dr. Creeton, [Robert Creighton] the Scotchman, […] ripped up Hugh Peters (calling him the execrable skellum), his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring in their bodkins and thimbles. [1663 April 3, Samuel Pepys, Diary:]
-
O Tam! had'st thou but been sae wise,
-
As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice!
-
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
-
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum;
-
That frae November till October,
-
Ae market-day thou was na sober. [1791, Robert Burns, Tam O' Shanter, lines 17–22:]
Nouns inflected like skellum
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Danish skælm, from Middle Low German; cognate to German Schelm. See: German Nouns '
Schelm'.