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English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Icelandic skalli (“a bald head”), English scald.
Pronunciation
Noun
scall (countable and uncountable, plural scalls)
- A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
- (mining) Loose ground.
Derived terms
Adjective
scall
- Mean; wretched.
References
- “scall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCALL”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.
- “scall”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “scall”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Irish
Verb
scall (present analytic scallann, future analytic scallfaidh, verbal noun scalladh, past participle scallta)
- (cooking) to poach
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form