English

Alternative forms

• skilligolee

Noun

skillygalee ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete, nautical) A type of gruel made from oatmeal.
   • 2005 Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Steve Noon, Nelson's Sailors, Osprey Publishing, p24

     Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee, a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar.

2. (obsolete) A thin broth prepared by soaking hardtack in water, and frying with pork fat.
   • 2004 Brian Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg, Minnesota Historical Society Press, p200

     Skillygalee was born of left-over pork grease and crackers too tough to bite and chew.