skir
See also: skír
Middle English
Yola
Etymology
Perhaps verbal variant of skee.
Verb
skir
- To rise in the air.
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:
- Th' commanès t'rapple; th' ball skir an vlee;
- The ball-clubs they rattled; the ball rose and flew;
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 68
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