skink

Meaning

Noun

1. A shin of beef.
2. (obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
3. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

Verb

1. To serve (a drink).
2. (obsolete) To give (something) as a present.

Synonyms

scincid lizard

scincid

plump

salamander

very small

scincoid lizard

lizard

🦎

small green lizard

newt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɪŋk/

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”)).