Definition 2024
skelf
skelf
Icelandic
Verb
skelf
- first-person singular active present indicative of skjálfa
Scots
Noun
skelf (plural skelfs)
- A splinter or sliver of wood.
- A thin or diminutive person.
- 1992, Iain Banks, The Crow Road
- 'Like I say; I could have got the baby-sitter to help me with him, but she's just a skelf...not our regular girl.'
