# skink
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /skɪŋk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* 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.
    lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
* (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
** 1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis:For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated
* (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
    Cullen skink

##### 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

* blind skink (Dibamus spp.)
* blue-tailed skink
* blue-tongued skink, blue-tongue skink (Tiliqua spp.)
* bobtail skink (Tiliqua rugosa)
* brown skink (Oligosoma zelandicum)
* coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
* crevice skink (Egernia spp.)
* emo skink (Emoia spp.)
* fire skink (Mochlus fernandi)
* inland snake-eyed skink (Cryptoblepharus australis)
* King's skink (Egernia kingii)
* lance skink (Acontias spp.)
* legless skink
* mountain skink
* supple skink (Lygosoma spp.)
* rock skink (Flexiseps decaryi)
* sand skink (Plestiodon reynoldsi, Chalcides ocellatus)
* water skink (Eulamprus spp.)
* western skink (Plestiodon skiltonianus)

##### 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)
* (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
** 1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […], volume V, London: John Murray, […], published 1833, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 246:Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.
** 1900, Theophrastus, “Of Foulness”, in [anonymous], transl., edited by David J[osiah] Brewer, Edward A. Allen, and William Schuyler, The World’s Best Essays from the Earliest Period to the Present Time […], royal edition, volume X, St. Louis, Mo.: Ferd[inand] P. Kaiser, →OCLC, page 3769:[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.
* (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.

#### Noun

skink (plural skinks)
* (obsolete) A drink.

### References

* ↑ “skink, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2009.
* 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: /skɪŋk/
* Hyphenation: skink
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Noun

skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n)
* a skink, any lizard of the family Scincidae

#### Derived terms

* hazelskink