sky
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
soccer
sports
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.
Inflected forms:
form: skies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
transitive
examples: The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.
gloss: To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
pos: verb
tags: dated
slang
transitive
examples: In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the coin shall fall; or, the ‘sudden death’ method in which one toss is decisive; […]
gloss: To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly.
gloss: To miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other.
Van Persie [i.e., Robin van Persie] skied a penalty, conceded by Gary Caldwell who was sent off, and also hit the post before scoring his third with a shot at the near post.
gloss: To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: All of a sudden he appeared as a third competitor, skied the Flying Scud with four fat bids of a thousand dollars each, and then as suddenly fled the field, remaining thenceforth (as before) a silent, interested spectator.
gloss: To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To raise an oar too high above the water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: sky the towel
sky the wipe
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