skinner

See also: Skinner

English

Etymology

From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin +‎ -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

skinner (plural skinners)

1. Someone who skins animals.
2. A hunting knife used for skinning animal carcasses.
3. A machine used for removing the skin from animal carcasses.
4. One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
5. (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
6. (gambling, slang) An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.

Derived terms

• mule skinner

Translations

someone who skins animals

• Bulgarian: кожар (bg) m (kožar)
• Catalan: escorxador (ca) m
• Finnish: nylkijä, nahkuri (fi)
• French: écorcheur (fr) m, écorcheuse (fr) f
• Galician: esfolador (gl) m
• Romanian: pielar (ro) m
• Russian: скорня́к (ru) m (skornják)
• Spanish: desollador m
• Tagalog: tagalabos
• Turkish: yüzücü (tr)

References

• (gambling slang): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Danish

Noun

skinner c

1. indefinite plural of skinne

Verb

skinner

1. present of skinne

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

skinner m or f

1. indefinite plural of skinne

Verb

skinner

1. present of skinne