Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous lizards of the family Scincidae, having a smooth shiny body and large scales on the head, and in some species, small or rudimentary legs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw or pour out (liquor); serve for drinking; offer or present (drink, etc.).
- To fill with liquor; pour liquor into.
- To draw, pour out, or serve liquor or drink.
- noun Drink; any liquor used as a beverage.
- noun A skinker. See the quotation.
- noun A shin-bone of beef; also, soup made with a shin of beef or other sinewy parts.
- noun A scincoid lizard; any member of the family Scincidæ in a broad sense, as the adda, Scincus officinalis, to which the name probably first attached.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family
Scincidæ , common in the warmer parts of all the continents. - intransitive verb obsolete To serve or draw liquor.
- transitive verb obsolete To draw or serve, as drink.
- noun obsolete Drink; also, pottage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lizard of theScincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that areregenerated whenshed . - verb Scotland to
serve (a drink) - noun obsolete
drink - noun obsolete
pottage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But the idea of skink control in a space as large as a ladies 'room is frightening.
Inexpectatus 2010
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HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail.
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mcz: Oh, and one of the things I noticed about the skink was the concrete.
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The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef".
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It's utterly delicious – the fish has flavoured the milk beautifully – but so rich that I can only imagine eating it in tiny, restaurant portions, rather than the big steaming bowls I think cullen skink deserves.
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This particular individual had 4 upper labial scales, which would make it a five-lined skink.
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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It is either the common five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) or the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps).
Archive 2009-06-01 AYDIN 2009
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Although cullen skink relies upon a certain amount of milk or cream to give it richness, when and how much to add varies wildly.
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Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Rice is nice – think paella, or kedgeree – but this is one of those rare and beautiful unions where both parties shine brighter in each other's company: from poached salmon and Jersey royals to Jansson's temptation and cullen skink, the combination just works.
bilby commented on the word skink
Scots - a kind of soup.
December 28, 2007