English Explanatory Dictionary

skink

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A shin of beef.
  2. A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
  3. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
noun
  1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
verb
  1. To serve (a drink).
  2. To give (something) as a present.
noun
  1. A drink.

Pronunciation

/skɪŋk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skink.wav

Word forms

skink skinks skinking skinked

Etymology

Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”). The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).

Derived words

Cullen skink blind skink blue-tailed skink blue-tongued skink blue-tongue skink bobtail skink brown skink coal skink cool-skink crevice skink emo skink fire skink inland snake-eyed skink King's skink lance skink legless skink mountain skink rock skink sand skink supple skink water skink western skink skinker
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