skip
/skɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."
- "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?"
- "So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically."
- "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."
- "The rock will skip across the pond."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
skips (present, singular)
skipping (participle, present)
skipped (participle, past)
skipped (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
skipped (first person, past)
skippest (archaic, present)
skipped (past, second person)
skippedst (archaic, past)
skippeth (archaic, present)
skipped (past, singular)