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Definition of skint in English: skintadjective skɪntskɪnt British informal (of a person) having little or no money available. 〈英，非正式〉身无分文的 我眼下身无分文。 Example sentencesExamples - And what about women who can't afford to pay and have low pain thresholds - do they just lie there screaming in agony because they are skint?
- Some suggest that Jackson is so skint that last year he was forced to cough up a $2 million diamond watch as collateral for a bank loan.
- Laura, currently on placement at Salford's Hope Hospital, said: ‘I'm a skint student.’
- I was so skint I couldn't even get the kids anything for Christmas.
- After years spent as a skint student with only a few pounds to my name, I learnt to sniff out the best deals behind the bar.
- ‘We were always skint before,’ Rowley says of the days before the band got signed.
- Due to reckless recent shiny gadget business acquisitions, I'm completely skint.
- But the worst time to be on Oxford Street is when you are skint and are shopping for someone else.
- ‘He knew I was skint, so he asked if I wanted to come and work in this place for eight hours a day,’ recalls Hemphill.
- But loads of skint people from the estates around here use it, and it's creaming off cash from them.
- With lager prices having risen 160% in 10 years, is it any wonder they're skint?
- ‘I wasn't going to play this season because I was skint,’ said Shaw.
- Whenever you go to the council asking for new books and equipment they say they are skint but they can find money for this kind of thing.
- By that, I mean we were too skint to really do anything.
- We have had a very bad election result, we are effectively skint, our activists are discouraged and our membership is falling.
- You have a lot of money in October, then come March you're skint again.
- And he doesn't mind taking on the job when I'm skint.
- I had previously owned a mustard-coloured Maxi and hated it, but I was so skint I found myself buying another one.
- A thief had to empty his pockets out in the court dock to prove he was skint.
- Being students, we were always skint and wanted the easiest, most flexible, and most profitable form of income we could get.
Synonyms destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, indigent, penniless, insolvent, impecunious, ruined, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings to rub together, without two pennies to rub together
Origin1920s: variant of colloquial skinned, in the same sense, past participle of skin. skin from Old English: Old Scandinavian gave us skin in the later Old English period—the word used until then was hide. The expression by the skin of your teeth arose from a misquotation from the biblical book of Job: ‘I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.’ The implication is ‘and nothing else’. See also beauty. The skinhead is associated with the Britain of the 1970s, but the first skinheads were American. In the 1950s recruits to the US Marines were known as skinheads because of the severe way their hair was cropped when they joined up. The colloquial word skint first found in the 1920s is a variant of colloquial skinned used in the same sense.
Rhymesasquint, bint, clint, dint, flint, glint, hint, imprint, lint, mint, misprint, print, quint, splint, sprint, squint, stint, tint Definition of skint in US English: skintadjectiveskintskɪnt British informal (of a person) having little or no money available. 〈英，非正式〉身无分文的 我眼下身无分文。 Example sentencesExamples - You have a lot of money in October, then come March you're skint again.
- ‘I wasn't going to play this season because I was skint,’ said Shaw.
- ‘We were always skint before,’ Rowley says of the days before the band got signed.
- We have had a very bad election result, we are effectively skint, our activists are discouraged and our membership is falling.
- But loads of skint people from the estates around here use it, and it's creaming off cash from them.
- Laura, currently on placement at Salford's Hope Hospital, said: ‘I'm a skint student.’
- Due to reckless recent shiny gadget business acquisitions, I'm completely skint.
- By that, I mean we were too skint to really do anything.
- Being students, we were always skint and wanted the easiest, most flexible, and most profitable form of income we could get.
- With lager prices having risen 160% in 10 years, is it any wonder they're skint?
- Some suggest that Jackson is so skint that last year he was forced to cough up a $2 million diamond watch as collateral for a bank loan.
- After years spent as a skint student with only a few pounds to my name, I learnt to sniff out the best deals behind the bar.
- I was so skint I couldn't even get the kids anything for Christmas.
- And he doesn't mind taking on the job when I'm skint.
- And what about women who can't afford to pay and have low pain thresholds - do they just lie there screaming in agony because they are skint?
- A thief had to empty his pockets out in the court dock to prove he was skint.
- But the worst time to be on Oxford Street is when you are skint and are shopping for someone else.
- Whenever you go to the council asking for new books and equipment they say they are skint but they can find money for this kind of thing.
- I had previously owned a mustard-coloured Maxi and hated it, but I was so skint I found myself buying another one.
- ‘He knew I was skint, so he asked if I wanted to come and work in this place for eight hours a day,’ recalls Hemphill.
Synonyms destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, indigent, penniless, insolvent, impecunious, ruined, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings to rub together, without two pennies to rub together
Origin1920s: variant of colloquial skinned, in the same sense, past participle of skin. |