skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭn
ipa: /skɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: skins
form: skinne
Etymology: From 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”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).
Senses: examples: text: He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
text: Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:
glosses: The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
synonyms: peel
pericarp
glosses: The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
synonyms: hide
pelt
glosses: The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
examples: text: 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.
text: Do you eat the skin on custard?
synonyms: film
glosses: A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
examples: text: You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
examples: text: My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
topics: video-games
glosses: An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
examples: text: Pass me a skin, mate.
glosses: Rolling paper for cigarettes.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:
glosses: Clipping of skinhead.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361:
synonyms: moiety
glosses: A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
examples: text: Let me see a bit of skin.
glosses: Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
examples: text: the Bacchic train,
Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes
ref: 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion:
glosses: A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
examples: text: The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
glosses: A drink of whisky served hot.
examples: text: He was a decent old skin.
text: PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”
ref: 2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy):
glosses: A person; chap.
examples: text: […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
ref: 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A purse.
Hyponyms: banana skin
buckskin
calfskin
cumskin
deerskin
doeskin
goatskin
goose skin
lambskin
loinskin
moleskin
pigskin
sealskin
second skin
sharkskin
sheepskin
snakeskin
waterskin
wineskin
yakskin
Derived terms: all skin and bones
bareskin
bare-skin
batskin
bearskin
beauty is only skin deep
beaverskin
beetleskin
birdskin
blackskin
blackskinned
bronzed skin disease
brown-point shield skin longirostris
brownskin
buffalo-skin
butterfly skin
by the skin of one's teeth
capeskin
caribouskin
catskin
chicken skin
chronic skin-picking
clean skin
cleanskin
clearskin
climbing skin
collect skin
coltskin
combination skin
combo skin
comfortable in one's own skin
comfortable in one's skin
coonskin
coon-skin cap
coon-skin hat
cowskin
darkskin
deer-skin
dickskin
dogskin
don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
dragonskin
drakeskin
drumskin
eelskin
elephant skin
elkskin
e-skin
fawnskin
fishskin
fish-skin disease
fish skin
fish-skin
foreskin
foxskin
frogskin
get underneath someone's skin
get under someone's skin
ghost skin
gimme some skin
give some skin to
glabrous skin
goldbeater's skin
gold-beater's skin
gooseskin
grapeskin
greenskin
grow some skin
hare-skin
hogskin
horseskin
hyson skin
in one's bare skin
it's no skin off my back
jump in one's skin
kidskin
king skin
kipskin
lay some skin on
leopardskin
light-skin
lightskin
lionskin
lizardskin
lumpy skin disease
make one's skin crawl
make someone's skin crawl
make someone's skin creep
milk skin
milliskin
mooseskin
muleskin
niggerskin
nonskin
no skin off my nose
no skin off one's back
no skin off one's nose
no skin off one's teeth
oilskin
onionskin
onion skin
otterskin
out of one's skin
outskin
oxskin
peeling skin syndrome
plastiskin
play the skin flute
plebeskin
ponyskin
poopskin
porcelain skin
potato skin
potato skins
rabbitskin
ramskin
ratskin
redskin
redskinned
reskin
rolling skin disease
save one's skin
save someone's skin
scarf-skin
shed skin
sheep-skin
shirts and skins
shitskin
show skin
show some skin
silverskin
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
skinbound
skinbow
skinbyrd
skin cancer
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
skinema
skin fade
skin fasting
skinfeel
skin flick
skinflick
skin-flick
skinflint
skinfluencer
skin flute
skinfold
skinfolk
skin food
skin forming alloy
skin fragility syndrome
skinful
skingirl
skin glue
skin graft
skin-group
skin group
skinhead
skin hunger
skinimalism
skin in the game
skin job
skinless
skinlike
skin mag
skin-mag
skin magazine
skin merchant
skin movie
skinnable
skin name
skinny
skinny-dip
skin of the teeth
skin-on
skin orgasm
skin-picking disorder
skin-pop
skinpop
skinship
skin signs
skinsuit
skin-tag
skin tag
skintag
skintern
skin-tight
skintight
skintone
skin trade
skin type
skin virgin
skinwalk
skinwalker
skin-walker
skinwalking
skin wool
skin worm
ski skin
slinkskin
slipskin
snow skin mooncake
soaked to the skin
solar skin
stagskin
staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
sticky skin syndrome
stiff skin syndrome
swanskin
thick skin
thickskin
thin skin
tigerskin
toadskin
tofu skin
turnskin
underskin
veal-skin
vealskin
walking skin cancer
waste of skin
weaselskin
whiteskin
whiteskinned
white skin privilege
within an inch of one's skin
with the skin of one's teeth
with whole skin
wolf in a lamb's skin
wolfskin
woolskin
wormskin
wrinkly skin syndrome
Related terms: cutaneous
cutis
dermis
epidermis