skintとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /skɪnt/
• (Scotland) IPA: /skʌnt/
• 韻: -ɪnt

形容詞

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

1. (slang, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
   • 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:

     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.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     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.

2. (slang) skinned

使用する際の注意点

• Cockney rhyming slang for skint is boracic lint, or just boracic. It is pronounced as barassic or brassic.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

派生語

• skintly
• skintness

アナグラム

• knits, sinkt, snikt, stink, tinks

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