2 definitions by korbo1
"the devil's abroad", i.e., destruction and death from wild and furious forces are eminent; all hell has broken loose.
Reference, * Gillespie*, Sir Henry John Newbolt's poetic account of the Vellore Mutiny of 1806
Reference, * Gillespie*, Sir Henry John Newbolt's poetic account of the Vellore Mutiny of 1806
"The Devil's abroad!" , shouted the deck hand as the giant fish rammed the flailing craft and stove in its timbers.
by korbo1 March 12, 2017
Skeddadle - to run off or away hurriedly. Also scodaddle
Probable origin: Since both the Irish word “sgedadol,” meaning “scattered,” and the Scottish word ”skiddle,” meaning “to spill or scatter”, have the same meaning as the Greek "scedasis", meaning "scatter", it seems obvious that they both started out as Greek, and thus, that skedaddle is derived from Greek, "skedastikós", meaning, "able to disperse, equivalent to skedast(ós) dispersable" (verbid of skedannýnai to scatter, disperse).
Probable origin: Since both the Irish word “sgedadol,” meaning “scattered,” and the Scottish word ”skiddle,” meaning “to spill or scatter”, have the same meaning as the Greek "scedasis", meaning "scatter", it seems obvious that they both started out as Greek, and thus, that skedaddle is derived from Greek, "skedastikós", meaning, "able to disperse, equivalent to skedast(ós) dispersable" (verbid of skedannýnai to scatter, disperse).
by korbo1 January 12, 2020