skiddly

1. A nonsense word used in musical phrases.

   Goodbye, goodbye We're leaving you, skiddly-dye Goodbye,

   2005, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, William Cook, Goodbye Again: The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

   3 more examples

   Mighty Dundalk's passing by! HYDIE-HEY, HYDIE HO-OH! Hydie-hey, hydie ho-oh! SKIDDLY WIDDLY WADDLY WO!

   1984, Barbara Wernecke Durkin, Oh, You Dundalk Girls, Can't You Dance the Polka?, page 225

   Oh, we went up Channel with a new main yard, Ch. Singing skiddly, winkie, doodle all the day!

   1961, Shanties from the Seven Seas, page 42

   External actions (0N_.) indicate that the speaker is attending to something other than the problem solving activity, for example [looking out the window] or humming a tune "skiddly dee dop, da dee dop, da dee dop."

   1996, Ming Ming Chiu, Building Mathematical Understanding During Collaboration, page 39

comparative more skiddly · superlative most skiddly

1. Tricky; troublesome; slippery; undependable.

   skiddly transportation.

   1942, The Forty-second Foot, page 123

   2 more examples

   Virgilio went on: "All he had with him was a woman's basket, a skiddly woman's basket, and some olives and dried figs.

   1966, James McNeish, Fire under the ashes: the life of Danilo Dolci, page 30

   I always knew that skiddly chick would mess up his mind.

   2011, Keith Maillard, Looking Good: Difficulty at the Beginning