Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: lacuna
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
Brewer's: Skye
(Isle of) means the isle of gaps or indentations (Celtic, skyb, a gap). Hence also the Skibbereen of Cork, which is Skyb-bohreen, the byway gap, a pass in a mountain to the sea.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|
Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
