skink

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

skinks

1.
(Northern England, Scotland)A shin of beef.
lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
2.
(Scotland, obsolete)(chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
3.
(Scotland, broadly)(chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
Cullen skink
4.
A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
5.
(obsolete)A drink.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

skinks

V_ing/Gerund

skinking

V_ed/pp

skinked

1.
(Scotland, ambitransitive)To serve (a drink).
2.
(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete, transitive)To give (something) as a present.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

Cullen skink

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro Possibly from schink, schinke, schenke (leg; shank; shin bone; ham), from skinka, from *skinkō (shank; thigh; that which is bent), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (to limp; to be crooked, slant).