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Scully

name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish.
Noun
  1. 1
    An obstacle set up against military vehicles; a Czech hedgehog.

    "Horned scullies usually are placed in water about 15 feet apart in a line parallel to the beach, with the rails pointing out to sea"

Verb
  1. 1
    To be skeptical toward (a person or situation) with ideas that do not coincide with conventional wisdom. slang, transitive

    "When she complains in another episode that Giles is refusing for once to consider a supernatural explanation, she says, "I can't believe that you of all people would Scully me,""

Etymology

Etymology 1

Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.

Etymology 2

Named after Dana Scully, fictional FBI agent in the American science fiction series The X-Files, who acts as a skeptical foil to the conspiracy theories of fellow agent Fox Mulder.

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