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skink

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/skɪŋk/

Definition of skink

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland)A shin of beef.
    “lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast”
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noun

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland)A shin of beef.
    “lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast”
  2. (Scotland, obsolete)A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
    “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”
  3. (Scotland, broadly)Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
    “Cullen skink”
  4. 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.
  5. (obsolete)A drink.

verb

  1. (Scotland, ambitransitive)To serve (a drink).
    “Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.”
    “[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.”
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete, transitive)To give (something) as a present.

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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,…

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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”)).

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