skink

skink

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

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

skink (plural skinks)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.

   lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast

2. (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

3. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

   Cullen skink

Derived terms

• Cullen skink

Etymology 2

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

A skink among flowers in South Africa

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; a sandfish.

Derived terms

• 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)

Translations

lizard

Adnyamathanha: apada Arabic: سَقَنْقُور‎ (saqanqūr) Armenian: սցինկ (scʿink) Assamese: নাইপিয়া (naipia) Azerbaijani: uzunayaq Basque: eskinko Bau Bidayuh: rigu Belarusian: сцы́нк m (scýnk) Bikol Central: tabili (bcl) Bulgarian: сцинк m (scink) Catalan: escíncid m Cebuano: tabili Chinese: Mandarin: 石龍子／石龙子 (zh) (shílóngzi) Czech: scink m Dutch: skink m Esperanto: skinko Finnish: skinkki (fi), kaivajalisko French: scinque (fr) m Galician: escíncido m, esgonzo m, escáncer Georgian: სცინკი (scinḳi) German: Skink m Greek: σκίγκος m (skígkos) Ancient: σκίγγος m (skíngos) Hebrew: חומט / חֹמֶט‎ m (khómet) Hungarian: szkink Indonesian: kadal (id) Irish: scinc m Italian: scinco (it) m Japanese: スキンク (sukinku), 蜥蜴 (ja) (トカゲ, tokage) Javanese: kadhal (jv) Kaurna: yuru Kazakh: сцинк (ssink) Khmer: ថ្លែន (km) (thlaen) Korean: 스킨크 (seukinkeu) Limburgish: skink m Lithuanian: scinkas m Malay: bengkarung (ms) Malayalam: അരണ (ml) (araṇa) Maori: moko Mari: Western Mari: сцинк (scink) Ngarrindjeri: kendi Norwegian: Bokmål: skink m Nynorsk: skink m Old Javanese: kadal Persian: سقنقور‎ (fa) Pitjantjatjara: muṭinka Polish: scynk m Portuguese: escíncido (pt) m Russian: сци́нк (ru) m (scínk) Sicilian: tira-ciatu m Spanish: escinco (es) m, eslizón (es) m Swahili: mijusi-islamu class 3/4 Swedish: skink c Tamil: அரணை (ta) (araṇai) Thai: จิ้งเหลน (jîng-lěen) Ukrainian: сцинк m (scynk) Vietnamese: thằn lằn bóng, rắn mối Welsh: sginc m

Etymology 3

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

skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
   • 1640 November 20 (licensing date, Gregorian calendar; published 1652)​, James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford and Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, OCLC 1001873553, Act V, scene i, page 246:

     Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.

   • 1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl.; David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, editors, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], volume X, royal edition, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, OCLC 4246752, page 3769:

     [W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.

2. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

1. (obsolete) A drink.

References

1. “skink, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2009.

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• skink in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• kinks

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪŋk/
• Hyphenation: skink
• Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Noun

skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n)

1. A skink, any lizard of the family Scincidae