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 .
Etymology 2
From Middle French scinc , from Latin scincus , from Ancient Greek σκίγγος ( skíngos ) , σκίγκος ( skínkos ) .
A skink among flowers in South Africa
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 .
Translations
lizard
Adnyamathanha: apada
Arabic: سَقَنْقُور ( saqanqūr )
Armenian: սցինկ ( scʻink )
Assamese: নাইপিয়া ( naipia )
Azerbaijani: uzunayaq
Basque: eskinko
Bau Bidayuh: rigu
Belarusian: сцы́нк m ( scýnk )
Bikol Central: tabili (bcl)
Bulgarian: сцинк m ( scink )
Catalan: escíncid m
Cebuano: tabili
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石龍子 / 石龙子 (zh) ( shílóngzi )
Czech: scink m
Dutch: skink m
Esperanto: skinko
Finnish: skinkki (fi) , kaivajalisko
French: scinque (fr) m
Galician: escíncido m , esgonzo m , escáncer
Georgian: სცინკი ( scinḳi )
German: Skink (de) m
Greek: σκίγκος m ( skígkos )
Ancient: σκίγγος m ( skíngos )
Hebrew: חומט / חֹמֶט m ( khómet )
Hindi: बभनी (hi) m ( babhnī ) , साँप की मौसी m ( sā̃p kī mausī )
Hungarian: szkink
Indonesian: kadal (id)
Irish: scinc m
Italian: scinco (it) m
Japanese: スキンク ( sukinku ) , 蜥蜴 (ja) ( トカゲ, tokage )
Javanese: kadhal (jv)
Kaurna: yuru
Kazakh: сцинк ( ssink )
Khmer: ថ្លែន (km) ( thlaen )
Korean: 스킨크 ( seukinkeu )
Kwara'ae: please add this translation if you can
Limburgish: skink m
Lithuanian: scinkas m
Malay: bengkarung (ms)
Malayalam: അരണ (ml) ( araṇa )
Maori: moko
Mari:
Western Mari: сцинк ( scink )
Ngarrindjeri: kendi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skink m
Nynorsk: skink m
Old Javanese: kadal
Ottoman Turkish: سقنقور ( sakankur ) , قوم بالغی ( kum balığı )
Odia: ଚମ୍ପେଇନେଉଳି (or) ( campeineuḷi )
Persian: سقنقور (fa)
Pijin: please add this translation if you can
Pitjantjatjara: muṭinka
Polish: scynk m
Portuguese: escíncido m
Russian: сци́нк (ru) m ( scínk )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can
Roman: please add this translation if you can
Sicilian: tira-ciatu m
Spanish: escinco (es) m , eslizón (es) m
Swahili: mijusi-islamu class 3 /4
Swedish: skink c
Tamil: அரணை (ta) ( araṇai )
Thai: จิ้งเหลน ( jîng-lěen ) * Kwara'ae: please add this translation if you can
Tok Pisin: please add this translation if you can
Tok Pisin: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: сцинк m ( scynk )
Vietnamese: thằn lằn bóng , rắn mối
Welsh: sginc m
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 :Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove , / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.
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 .