Scully

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English

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Etymology 1

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Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.

Proper noun

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Scully (plural Scullys)

  1. A surname from Irish.
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Statistics
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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Scully is the 4060th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8747 individuals. Scully is most common among White (93.61%) individuals.

Etymology 2

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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.

Verb

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Scully

  1. (slang, transitive) To be skeptical toward (a person or situation) with ideas that do not coincide with conventional wisdom.
    • 2005, Rhonda Wilcox, Why Buffy matters: the art of Buffy the vampire slayer, page 28:
      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,"
    • 2015, Denny Waxman, The Complete Macrobiotic Diet, →ISBN:
      She Scullied me and I'm sure the word “macrobiotics” never made it into my medical file; it's an unexplained disappearance of cancer.
    • 2019 February 19, Rachel, “How to Talk to Your Hot Gay Crush About Astrology When You Don't Believe In It”, in Autostraddle:
      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!

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