Skelf (noun) (Scots)
s-kel-f
A splinter or piece of wood. Also used to describe an annoying person.
Scottish, almost certainly a variation on shelf.
Example sentences
“A’ve goat a skelf the size of a toothpick in my finger”
“Daen’t be such a skelf, yer an idiot.”
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