Scully.
A surname from Irish.
Meaning & usage
A surname from Irish.
Where this word comes from
Reduced Anglicized spelling of Irish Ó Scolaidhe.
To be skeptical toward (a person or situation) with ideas that do not coincide with conventional wisdom.
Where this word comes from
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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