different between skillygalee vs skilligalee

English

Alternative forms

• skilligalee
• 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.

English

Alternative forms

• skilligolee
• skillygalee

Noun

skilligalee (uncountable)

1. A thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, formerly given to prisoners and paupers in England.
2. A drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, formerly consumed in the English navy and army.

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