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Scully¹

Where it comes from

Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.

proper noun Scullys · Sculley

  1. A surname from Irish.

Scully²

Where it comes from

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.

verb Sculley

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

scully³

noun scullies

  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

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Closest in meaning: yeah, scallan, scurry, scallion, scollon, scally, scannell, scullion, skelly, scallon, scobie, mccurley, mcsheaffrey, mcculloh, irish, skehan

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@misc{scully_2026,
  title = {scully},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scully},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}