skint
/skɪnt/
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Scotland/skʌnt/
skint adjective: penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
Adjective
skint (comparative skinter or more skint, superlative skintest or most skint)
- Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
- There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?
- Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
- skinned
skint meaning in Kannada
skint in Kannada
- ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ದರಿದ್ರ, ದುಡ್ಡಿಲ್ಲದ, ದಟ್ಟದರಿದ್ರ
Forms of skint
| comparative | skinter |
|---|---|
| comparative | more skint |
| superlative | skintest |
| superlative | most skint |
Origin of skint
The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned. Note also the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Words formed from skint
- skintly
- skintness
Words that rhyme with skint
Questions about skint
- What does skint mean?
- Skint means penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
- What is skint in Kannada?
- Skint in Kannada is ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ದರಿದ್ರ, ದುಡ್ಡಿಲ್ಲದ, ದಟ್ಟದರಿದ್ರ. See Skint meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is skint?
- Skint is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce skint?
- Skint is pronounced /skɪnt/.
Words near skint in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: skint (page history and authors); skint (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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