Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

outskin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: out-skin
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An outer skin; surface.

noun

The external skin.

noun

A skin or pelt of some special description.

verb

To surpass in skinning.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned."
"But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return."
"The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin."
"Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]"
"Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]"
"They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]"

Etymology

From out- + skin.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: out

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

outskins (plural) outskins (present, singular) outskinning (participle, present) outskinned (participle, past) outskinned (past)

Questions

What does outskin mean?: An outer skin; surface.
Where does outskin come from?: From out- + skin.

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