Scully
nom propreverbecourant dans les dialogues
A surname from Irish.
nom propre
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A surname from Irish.
Étymologie
Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.
verbe
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argotTo 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,"
She Scullied me and I'm sure the word “macrobiotics” never made it into my medical file; it's an unexplained disappearance of cancer.
If you feel strongly about Scullying this situation and avoiding anyone who believes in made-up sky magic, that’s your prerogative, but you should know that you’re preemptively x’ing out a LOT of the queer population you might otherwise click with!
Étymologie
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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