skin
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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. Not related to shin.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: skĭn, IPA(key): /skɪn/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (UK): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɪn
Noun
editskin (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.
- Do you eat the skin on custard?
- (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.
- (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.
- (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
- (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, British) person, chap
- He was a decent old skin.
- 2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy):
- 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.
Synonyms
edit- (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
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- alligator skin
- all skin and bones
- bare-skin
- bareskin
- beauty is only skin deep
- blackskin
- blackskinned
- bronzed skin disease
- buffalo-skin
- butterfly skin
- by the skin of one's teeth
- clean skin
- climbing skin
- collect skin
- combination skin
- combo skin
- comfortable in one's own skin
- comfortable in one's skin
- coon-skin cap
- coon-skin hat
- deer-skin
- don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
- elephant skin
- e-skin
- foreskin
- get underneath someone's skin
- get under someone's skin
- ghost skin
- gimme some skin
- give some skin to
- glabrous skin
- gold-beater's skin
- goldbeater's skin
- greenskin
- grow some skin
- hare-skin
- hyson skin
- it's no skin off my back
- jump in one's skin
- king skin
- lay some skin on
- light-skin
- lumpy skin disease
- make one's skin crawl
- make someone's skin crawl
- make someone's skin creep
- no skin off my nose
- no skin off one's back
- no skin off one's nose
- no skin off one's teeth
- onion skin
- out of one's skin
- peeling skin syndrome
- play the skin flute
- porcelain skin
- potato skin
- potato skins
- redskin
- redskinned
- rolling skin disease
- save one's skin
- save someone's skin
- scarf-skin
- sheep-skin
- shirts and skins
- silver skin
- skin a flint
- skin and blister
- skin and bone
- skin and bones
- skin and grin
- skin-art
- skin art
- skin back
- skin beetle
- skin cancer
- skincare
- skin care
- skincare
- skin cell
- skin color
- skin colour
- skin-crawling
- skin cream
- skin-deep
- skin disease
- skin-dive
- skin-diver
- skin diving
- skin effect
- skin fade
- skin-flick
- skinflick
- skin flick
- skinflint
- skin flute
- skinfold
- skin food
- skin forming alloy
- skinful
- skin glue
- skin graft
- skin group
- skin-group
- skinhead
- skin hunger
- skin in the game
- skin job
- skinless
- skin-mag
- skin mag
- skin magazine
- skin movie
- skinnable
- skin name
- skinny
- skinny-dip
- skin of the teeth
- skin-on
- skin orgasm
- skin-pop
- skin signs
- skin tag
- skin-tag
- skintight
- skin-tight
- skin type
- skin virgin
- skin-walker
- skin wool
- skin worm
- ski skin
- soaked to the skin
- staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
- thick skin
- thin skin
- tofu skin
- veal-skin
- walking skin cancer
- waste of skin
- whiteskin
- whiteskinned
- with the skin of one's teeth
- with whole skin
- wolf in a lamb's skin
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editVerb
editskin (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.
- (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.
Synonyms
edit- (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
- (remove the skin of): flay, fleece, flense, scalp
Derived terms
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edit- ^ 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, paperback →ISBN, Introduction.
Anagrams
editAbinomn
editNoun
editskin
Cimbrian
editEtymology
editFrom Norwegian ski + -an (infinitive suffix).
Verb
editskin
Noun
editskin n
References
edit- “skin” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Danish
editEtymology
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
editskin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)
Verb
editskin
- imperative of skinne
Dutch
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editskin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)
Anagrams
editIcelandic
editEtymology
editFrom skína (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editskin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)
Declension
editDerived terms
editAnagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editskin
- Alternative form of skyn
Norwegian Nynorsk
editVerb
editskin
- inflection of skina:
Old Saxon
editAlternative forms
edit- scīn n
Etymology
editFrom skīnan.
Noun
editskīn n
Portuguese
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English skin.
Noun
editskin 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)
Swedish
editVerb
editskin
- imperative of skina
Tok Pisin
editEtymology
editNoun
editskin
Derived terms
edit- skin pas (“envelope”)
Volapük
editNoun
editskin (nominative plural skins)
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- 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
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