Word.ws English Dictionary

skinks

skinks is the plural of skink.

skinks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skink.

Meaning of skink

Noun (1)

skink (plural skinks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A shin of beef.
    • lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
    • For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis
  3. (Scotland, broadly) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
    • Cullen skink

Noun (2)

skink (plural skinks)

  1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.

Noun (3)

skink (plural skinks)

  1. (obsolete) A drink.

See all 7 meanings of skink

Phrases with skinks

1 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about skinks

What is skinks the plural of?
Skinks is the plural of skink.

Words near skinks in the dictionary

  1. skink
  2. skinked
  3. skinker
  4. skinkers
  5. skinking
  6. skinks
  7. skinless
  8. skinlessness
  9. skinlike
  10. skinmag
  11. skinmags

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skinks (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:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-skinks.wav.

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