skip
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, *skupaną (“to scoff, mock”), related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Middle Swedish skuppa (“to skip”).
Verb
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- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
- (Can we date this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
- 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC[2]:
- The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
- (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- The rock will skip across the pond.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[3]:
- After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- My heart will skip a beat.
- I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
- (Can we date this quote by Bishop Burnet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.
- To place an item in a skip.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
- (transitive, informal) To leave
- to skip the country
- 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?
- I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
- She really want to skip town
- Get back off me, beast off me
- Get back you flea-infested mongrel
- To leap lightly over.
- to skip the rope
- To jump rope.
- The girls were skipping in the playground.
- (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
Synonyms
- (informal, not to attend): (US) play hookie
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Noun
skip (plural skips)
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Busby to this entry?)
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)
- Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
- 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)
- (radio) skywave propagation
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Etymology 2
From Old Norse skeppa, 'basket'.
Noun
skip (plural skips)
- (Australia, New Zealand, British) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- A beehive.
Synonyms
- (open-topped rubbish bin): dumpster (Canada, US)
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Etymology 3
From English skillper, from Dutch schipper "captain", earlier "seaman", equivalent to schip, "ship" + -er.
Noun
skip (plural skips)
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
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Etymology 4
A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them.[1] Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).
Alternative forms
Noun
skip (plural skips)
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,
- Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
- Barber: She is Australian.
- Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.
- 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,
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See also
Etymology 5
17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”).[2] Used at Trinity College Dublin.[3]
Noun
skip (plural skips)
- (university slang) A college servant.
- 1703, Edward Ward, The London-spy Compleat, 5th edition, volume 1, part 7, published 1713, page 157:
- Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]
- 1842 October, Billy Sheridan, “Reminiscences of College Life”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 682:
- He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"
- 1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Flight after Defeat”, in The History of Pendennis:
- His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?
Related terms
References
- ^ Australian National Dictionary Centre » Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » S
- ^ “skip”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 16 June 2019.
- ^ Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 184
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Afrikaans
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)
Derived terms
Descendants
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.
Pronunciation
Noun
skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)
Declension
Declension of skip | ||||
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n3 | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | skip | skipið | skip | skipini |
accusative | skip | skipið | skip | skipini |
dative | skipi | skipinum | skipum | skipunum |
genitive | skips | skipsins | skipa | skipanna |
Derived terms
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Gothic
Romanization
skip
- Romanization of 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.
Pronunciation
Noun
skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)
Declension
Synonyms
- (ship, boat): bátur m, gnoð f, kafs hestur m
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Cognate with Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.
Pronunciation
Noun
skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa or skipene)
- a ship
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Akin to English ship.
Pronunciation
Noun
skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa)
- a ship
Synonyms
Derived terms
For other terms please refer to skip (Bokmål) for the time being. Template:User:Donnanz/der4-u
References
- “skip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).
Noun
skip n (genitive skips, plural skip)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “skip”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English sċip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.
Noun
skip n
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | skip | skipu |
accusative | skip | skipu |
genitive | skipes | skipō |
dative | skipe | skipum |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.
Pronunciation
Noun
skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)
Further reading
- “skip (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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