skinned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnd

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English skin

Old English -ed

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz

Old English -od

Middle English -ed

English -ed

English skinned

From skin (noun) + -ed (“having”).

Adjective

skinned (not comparable)

1. Having skin.
   1. (in combination) Having a specific type of skin.
      • 1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines, Ia.: Better Homes and Gardens Books, published 1970 (2nd printing), page 146, column 1:

        Kiwi: Kiwi fruits are imported from New Zealand. Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe. To serve this fruit, peel and slice.

2. Covered in a thin membrane resembling skin.

Derived terms

• dark-skinned
• light-skinned
• onion-skinned
• redskinned
• shitskinned
• thick-skinned
• thin-skinned
• tough-skinned
• whole-skinned
• yellow-skinned

Etymology 2

From skin (“to remove skin”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming past tenses).

Verb

skinned

1. simple past and past participle of skin

Adjective

skinned (not comparable)

1. Having skin (or similar outer layer) totally or partially removed.

   My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.

2. (slang) Stripped of money or property.

Derived terms

• preskinned
• unskinned

Translations

stripped of money

• Dutch: blut (nl)
• German: mittellos (de), pleite (de)

See also

• peeled