■ adjective & adverb in disorderly haste or confusion.
■ noun Brit. a tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair.
Origin
C16: a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perh. symbolic of running feet or from ME skelte 'hasten'.
■ adjective & adverb in disorderly haste or confusion.
■ noun Brit. a tall spiral slide winding around a tower at a fair.
Origin
C16: a rhyming jingle of unknown origin, perh. symbolic of running feet or from ME skelte 'hasten'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004