skink
/skɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Example Sentences
- "lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast"
- "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"
- "Cullen skink"
- "Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day."
- "[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast."
Etymology
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”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skɪŋk/
- British English: /skɪŋk/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Cullen skink
blind skink
blue-tailed skink
blue-tongued skink
blue-tongue skink
bobtail skink
brown skink
coal skink