skink
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Etymology 1[edit]
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[edit]
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
- 1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis
- (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).
Noun[edit]
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.
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Derived terms[edit]
- blind skink (Dibamus spp.)
- blue-tailed skink
- blue-tongued skink, blue-tongue skink (Tiliqua spp.)
- brown skink (Oligosoma zelandicum)
- coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
- crevice skink (Egernia spp.)
- emo skink (Emoia spp.)
- fire skink (Mochlus fernandi)
- 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)
Etymology 3[edit]
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[edit]
skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)
- (transitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
- 1640, James Shirley, The Imposture
- Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.
- 1640, James Shirley, The Imposture
- (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give as a present.
Noun[edit]
skink (plural skinks)
References[edit]
- ^ “skink, n.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2009.
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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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English skink, from Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos).
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Noun[edit]
skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n)
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