Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See scum.

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Examples

  • Ai traids u boht a sleiz ob caek an a skun fer sum phresh howtz bredNbudder?

    Bird watchin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The skun knees and hands from learning to ride a bike stick well in my memory.

    thoughts on a python programming competition Bill Kerr 2007

  • And then another fellow comes along with a better offer for the house, and I felt it was my duty to the firm to get rid of Varney, and I was so worried about it I skun up there and got back the lease.

    Babbit 2004

  • "If it ain't," was the answer, "I was skun out o 'half a dollar."

    Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

  • And then another fellow comes along with a better offer for the house, and I felt it was my duty to the firm to get rid of Varney, and I was so worried about it I skun up there and got back the lease.

    Babbitt 1922

  • And then another fellow comes along with a better offer for the house, and I felt it was my duty to the firm to get rid of Varney, and I was so worried about it I skun up there and got back the lease.

    Chapter 19 1922

  • Me an 'my brother Sam ain't on what you might say, fambly terms, which he'd of skun me to a frazzle on this here deal if the claim I traded him fer the saloon had of be'n worth a damn.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

  • Thus fed as the preterite of to feed and led as the preterite of to lead paved the way for pled as the preterite of to plead, and rode as plainly performed the same office for glode, and rung for brung, and drove for dove and hove, and stole for dole, and won for skun.

    Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb Henry Louis 1921

  • And then another fellow comes along with a better offer for the house, and I felt it was my duty to the firm to get rid of Varney, and I was so worried about it I skun up there and got back the lease.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • One crowd formed a jint-stock company, an 'sold shares, an' skun a whole pile of money outer people.

    The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

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  • apparently, the same as scum.

    July 20, 2009