SKY-BLUE, London milk much diluted with water, or from which the cream
has been too closely skimmed.
“Hence, Suffolk dairy wives run mad for cream,
And leave their milk with nothing but the name;
Its name derision and reproach pursue,
And strangers tell of three times skimmed—SKY-BLUE.”
_Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy._
SKY-BLUE formerly meant gin.
SKY-LARK.—_See_ LARK.
SKY PARLOUR, the garret.
SKY SCRAPER, a tall man; “are you cold up there, old SKY SCRAPER?”
Properly a sea term; the light sails which some adventurous skippers
set above the royals in calm latitudes are termed SKY-SCRAPERS and
MOON-RAKERS.