skell

Fetched 2026-10-27 (live).

Synonyms: swell, shell, skill, spell, smell, sell, snell, kell, stell, skelp, skull

Antonyms: swell, shell, skill, spell, smell, sell, snell, kell, stell, skelp, skull

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
   • Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
2. A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.

Verb

1. To fall off or fall over.
   • She went skelling over on the ice.

Source: Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wiktionary) · cached copy, not a rewrite.