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skintest

skintest is the superlative form of skint.

Meaning of skint

Adjective

skint (comparative skinter or more skint, superlative skintest or most skint)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) 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?
  2. (slang) skinned

Questions about skintest

What is skintest the superlative form of?
Skintest is the superlative form of skint.

Words near skintest in the dictionary

  1. skintag
  2. skintags
  3. skinter
  4. skintern
  5. skinterns
  6. skintest
  7. skintight
  8. skintights
  9. skintness
  10. skintone
  11. skintones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skintest (page history and authors); skint (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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