Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Watery; thin; washy.

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  • verb Present participle of skink.

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Examples

  • Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware [watery stuff]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • I must eat alone; a very pernicious thing for a person of my habit of body, content myself with a pint of skinking claret, and meditate the discourse.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Scots MP quits defence role after hitting out over war in Afghanistan Rescue operation called off after radio lesson sparks search for skinking boat Sports coach is convicted of abusing young gymnasts over 20 year period Exclusive: Scots war heroes charity forced to take BNP cash on 70th anniversary of WW2

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

  • I was ther for about ten min, while in that time it felt like i was skinking in the clay, my leags wher comply sumerge, my hip was about 3 / 4 sumerg, and the rest of my boddy was about 1 / 2 sumerged in the subdece, then about five minets latter the subdence feelt like it was hard as rock and then a female came in, but she did not look like aliens, she looked a hybered i rean about. then she cercle around me for a few minets.

    Entertainment magazine The Cheers 2009

  • Queenes table (except the skinking pottes which were all of pure fine

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • "You might challenge at skinking that great Danish knight who was with us under Orleans, Sir Andrew Haggard was his name, and his bearings were ...

    A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

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