Word.ws English Dictionary

skinked

skinked is the simple past and past participle of skink.

Meaning of skink

Verb

skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)

  1. (Scotland, ambitransitive) To serve (a drink).
    • Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.1640 November 20 (date licensed, Gregorian calendar; published 1652), James Shirley, “The Imposture”, in William Gifford, Alexander Dyce, editors, The Dramatic Works and Poems of James Shirley, […]...
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a present.

See all 7 meanings of skink

Questions about skinked

What is skinked the simple past and past participle of?
Skinked is the simple past and past participle of skink.

Words near skinked in the dictionary

  1. skinheadism
  2. skinheads
  3. skinheads on a raft
  4. skinimalism
  5. skink
  6. skinked
  7. skinker
  8. skinkers
  9. skinking
  10. skinks
  11. skinless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skinked (page history and authors); skink (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “skinked.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skinked. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.