# skimmer
## English

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### Pronunciation

* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From skim +‎ -er.

#### Noun

skimmer (plural skimmers)
* A device that skims.
** A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
** A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
** (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
    Coordinate terms: skimming, shimming, shimmer
* A person who skims.
** 2023, Richard Deitsch, The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023:Perhaps the greatest stone skimmer is Scotland's own Dougie Isaacs, who has won eight world titles.
* Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
* Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
* A ballet flat shoe.
* A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
** 1969, The New York Times Magazine (part 3)
    Classic, box-pleated skimmers and pantdresses stay crisp and fresh, won't wrinkle or wilt!
** 2006, Adele P. Margolis, Judy Skoogfors, Make Your Own Dress Patterns, page 73:The utilization of divided dart control—some stitched and some unstitched—is the basis of semifitted styles such as the shift or skimmer dress.
** 2009, Phyllis G. Tortora, Keith Eubank, Survey of Historic Costume, page 572:Slightly A-line, princess-cut “skimmers” were popular as dresses in summer and jumpers in winter.
* (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
* (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
* (naval) A surface ship.
* (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
** 2015, Aurora Springer, Grand Master's Pawn:Kondric stood beside the skimmer for a moment, looking back at his warriors. They shouted and banged their swords on their shields. He raised his hand in farewell, and followed Violet into the cabin.
** 2000, Carlie Simonsen, Rocky to the Rescue, page 2:They said no one landed on other planets. They said there was no such thing as a skimmer. Rocky hadn't believed them. They didn't know everything. He wished they could see the skimmer.

##### Synonyms

* (birds): scissorbill

##### Derived terms

* African skimmer, black skimmer, Indian skimmer
* blue skimmer
* fiery skimmer
* neon skimmer
* sea skimmer
* slender skimmer
* spider skimmer

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Northern variant of shimmer.

#### Verb

skimmer (third-person singular simple present skimmers, present participle skimmering, simple past and past participle skimmered)
* To shimmer.
* To move quickly, to flutter.
** 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 9:…he was bounding over the heads of the maidens, and making his feet skimmer against the ceiling, enjoying, the while, the most ecstatic emotions.

### Anagrams

* kimmers

## Swedish
### Etymology

Deverbal of skimra. Cognate of German Schimmer which may have affected some senses.

### Noun

skimmer n
* a faint tremulous or intermittent light; a shimmer
    Dra ett löjets skimmer över ― Pull a shimmer of gleeful ridicule over ("Make a mockery of," idiomatic)

#### Related terms

* skimra (“to shimmer”)

#### See also

* ett löjets skimmer (“an air of mockery”)

#### References

* skimmer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* skimmer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* skimmer in Svensk ordbok (SO)