skink
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /skɪŋk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Etymology 1
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”)).[1]
Noun
skink (plural skinks)
- (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
- lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
- (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis:
- For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated
- (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).
Noun
skink (plural skinks)
- 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.
Derived terms
- blind skink (Dibamus spp.)
- blue-tailed skink
- blue-tongued skink, blue-tongue skink (Tiliqua spp.)
- bobtail skink (Tiliqua rugosa)
- brown skink (Oligosoma zelandicum)
- coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
- crevice skink (Egernia spp.)
- emo skink (Emoia spp.)
- fire skink (Mochlus fernandi)
- inland snake-eyed skink (Cryptoblepharus australis)
- King's skink (Egernia kingii)
- legless skink
- mountain skink
- supple skink (Lygosoma spp.)
- rock skink (Flexiseps decaryi)
- sand skink
- water skink (Eulamprus spp.)
- western skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus)
Translations
lizard
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Etymology 3
From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
Verb
skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)
- (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
- 1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 246:
- 1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], royal edition, volume X, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, →OCLC, page 3769:
- [W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.
- (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.
Noun
skink (plural skinks)
References
- “skink, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2009.
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- “skink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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