skin
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”).
See also Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed.
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: skĭn, IPA(key): /skɪn/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪn
NounEdit
skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:
- Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- Pass me a skin, mate.
- (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
- 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth
- By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
- 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth
- (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin. [1]
- 1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology (page 361)
- The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back.
- 1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology (page 361)
- (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Let me see a bit of skin.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion
- the Bacchic train,
Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes
- the Bacchic train,
- 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion
- (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- (Can we date this quote?) “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar
- (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap
- He was a decent old skin.
- 2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, Calm With Horses, spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy), 54:50 from the start:
- PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”
- (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
- 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London (volume 3, page 86)
- […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
- 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London (volume 3, page 86)
SynonymsEdit
- (outer covering of living tissue): dermis, integument, tegument
- (outer protective layer of a plant or animal): peel (of fruit or vegetable), pericarp
- (skin of an animal used by humans): hide, pelt
- (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid): film
- (subgroup of Australian Aboriginals): moiety, section, subsection
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- by the skin of one's teeth
- comfortable in one's own skin
- get under someone's skin
- give some skin to
- it's no skin off my back
- jump in one's skin
- make one's skin crawl
- no skin off my nose
- shirts and skins
- skin and bone
- skin and bones
- skin cancer
- skin care
- skin cell
- skin color
- skin colour
- skin cream
- skin disease
- skin effect
- skin flick
- skin flute
- skin graft
- skin in the game
- skin job
- skin movie
- skin type
- skincare
- skinflint
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VerbEdit
skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)
- (transitive) To injure the skin of.
- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- (colloquial) To high five.
- (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
- Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
- (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- 2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC[1]:
- The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.
- (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
- A wound eventually skins over.
- (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
- (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
- (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
SynonymsEdit
- (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
- (remove the skin of): flay, fleece, flense, scalp
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, paperback →ISBN, Introduction.
AnagramsEdit
AbinomnEdit
NounEdit
skin
CimbrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Norwegian ski + -an (infinitive suffix).
VerbEdit
skin
NounEdit
skin n
ReferencesEdit
- “skin” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
skin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)
VerbEdit
skin
- imperative of skinne
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)
AnagramsEdit
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From skína (“to shine”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
skin
- Alternative form of skyn
Norwegian NynorskEdit
VerbEdit
skin
- inflection of skina:
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From skīnan.
NounEdit
skīn n
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
skin f (plural skins)
- (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
- (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)
SwedishEdit
VerbEdit
skin
- imperative of skina.
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
skin
Derived termsEdit
- skin pas (envelope)
VolapükEdit
NounEdit
skin (nominative plural skins)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- beraskin
- beraskinaluhät
- beraskinik
- blägaskin
- blägaskinan
- blägaskinik
- blövaskin
- blövaskinan
- blövaskinik
- braunaskin
- braunaskinan
- braunaskinik
- bubülaskin
- fitaskin
- flitaskinäd
- fukaskin
- fukaskinik
- ganaskin
- gedaskin
- gedaskinan
- gedaskinik
- goldaskin
- goldaskinan
- goldaskinik
- goldinalainaskin
- grünaskin
- grünaskinan
- grünaskinik
- hiskinan
- härminaskin
- härminaskinamäned
- härminaskinik
- jipaskin
- jipaskinik
- jipülaskin
- jipülaskinik
- jiskinan
- kapaskin
- kranaskin
- lainaskin
- largentaskin
- largentaskin
- largentaskinan
- largentaskinan
- largentaskinik
- largentaskinik
- leskin
- leskinik
- lievaskin
- mäned härminaskinik
- redaskin
- redaskinan
- redaskinik
- räkunaskin
- skinadefälot
- skinafron
- skinahogül
- skinajüd
- skinam
- skinamaläd
- skinamaläd
- skinan
- skinaplastüd
- skinaplif
- skinaskret
- skinasümik
- skinik
- skiniklinükam
- skiniklinüköl
- skinikäled
- skinil
- skinön
- svimaskinäd
- säskinam
- säskinamaneif
- säskinamasep
- säskinamasep
- säskinamöp
- säskinanadünan
- säskinanaluvab
- säskinön
- vietaskin
- vietaskinan
- vietaskinik
- yelovaskin
- yelovaskinan
- yelovaskinik