name
Meaning 1
A surname from Irish.
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Standard Lemma guide
Scully
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noun
Meaning 2
An obstacle set up against military vehicles; a Czech hedgehog.
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verb
Meaning 3
To be skeptical toward (a person or situation) with ideas that do not coincide with conventional wisdom.
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Usage: slang, transitive
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History
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.
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.
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