skink

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /skɪŋk/ Rhymes: -ɪŋk === Etymology 1 === Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”). The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)). ==== Noun ==== skink (plural skinks) (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients. ===== Derived terms ===== Cullen skink === Etymology 2 === From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos). ==== Noun ==== skink (plural skinks) 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. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink. ==== Verb ==== skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked) (ambitransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink). (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Noun ==== skink (plural skinks) (obsolete) A drink. === References === The Dictionary of the Scots Language The Dictionary of the Scots Language “skink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === kinks == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English skink, from Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skɪŋk/ Hyphenation: skink Rhymes: -ɪŋk === Noun === skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n) a skink, any lizard of the family Scincidae ==== Derived terms ==== hazelskink