skink

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɪŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

Cognate with German Schinken (“ham, pork from the hindquarter”), Middle Dutch schenke (“shin, hough, ham”), Swedish skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Danish skinke (“ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
    Lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast.
References

Etymology 2

From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

  1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English scencan or Old Norse skenkja, 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)

  1. (Scotland) To serve (a drink).
    • Shirley
      Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.
  2. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To give as a present.

Noun

skink

  1. (obsolete) Drink.
  2. (obsolete) Pottage.
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Derived terms
References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for skink in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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