skink
Plural: skinks
Noun
- alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
- A shin of beef.
- A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
- Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
- 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.
- A drink.
Verb
Verb Forms: skinked, skinking, skinks
- To pour out or serve liquor.
- To serve (a drink).
- To give (something) as a present.
Examples
- Cullen skink
- He would skink out the words onto the board, carefully selecting each one for maximum effect.
- lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
Origin / Etymology
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”)).
Synonyms
scincid, scincid lizard
Scrabble Score: 13
skink: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordskink: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skink: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary