English Explanatory Dictionary

skinship

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
  2. Spending time together naked for social bonding.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-skinship.wav

Word forms

skinship

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スキンシップ (sukinshippu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from skin + ship. Recorded as early as 1966 by the OED in a Japanese context. In Japanese, this form was also observed in the Latin script as early as 1955.

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