Scully
See also: scully
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Scully
- A surname
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Named after Dana Scully, fictional FBI agent in the TV series The X-Files, who acts as a skeptical foil to the conspiracy theories of fellow agent Fox Mulder.
Verb
Scully
- (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!