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Antonyms for skin

Grammar : Noun, verb
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Phonetic Transcription : skɪn


Definition of skin

Origin :
  • c.1200, "animal hide" (usually dressed and tanned), from Old Norse skinn "animal hide, fur," from Proto-Germanic *skintha- (cf. Old English scinn (rare), Old High German scinten, German schinden "to flay, skin;" German dialectal schind "skin of a fruit," Flemish schinde "bark"), from PIE *sken- "to cut off" (cf. Breton scant "scale of a fish," Irish scainim "I tear, I burst"), from root *sek- "to cut" (see section (n.)).
  • Ful of fleissche Y was to fele, Now ... Me is lefte But skyn & boon. [hymn, c.1430]
  • The usual Anglo-Saxon word is hide (n.1). Meaning "epidermis of a living animal or person" is attested from early 14c.; extended to fruits, vegetables, etc. late 14c. Jazz slang sense of "drum" is from 1927. Meaning "a skinhead" is from 1970. As an adjective, it formerly had a slang sense of "cheating" (1868); sense of "pornographic" is attested from 1968. Skin deep is first attested in this:
  • All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin-deep. [Sir Thomas Overbury, "A Wife," 1613; the poem was a main motive for his murder]
  • The skin of one's teeth as the narrowest of margins is attested from 1550s in the Geneva Bible literal translation of the Hebrew text in Job xix:20. To get under (someone's) skin "annoy" is from 1896. Skin-graft is from 1871. Skin merchant "recruiting officer" is from 1792.
  • noun outer covering, especially of animate being
  • verb remove outer covering
Example sentences :
  • Andrew Lanning was town bred and soft of skin from the work at the forge.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • Cool enough to handle and then remove the skin and the roots.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • If the mushrooms are found to be tough, the skin should be peeled off.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • The russet of oranges is caused by the bite of an insect on the skin.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Their skin does not cling so closely as the skin of oranges.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Whenever we get under the skin, it is Shakespeare's femininity which startles us.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • The big fellows at the clubs always had a wad and peeled off bills like skin off an onion.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Then the cow shook her foot to free it and the skin rattled.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • "It was of that first treading that the Skin talked," agreed the Coyote.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • He just missed running into Banjo on the Hog's Back by the skin of the teeth.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

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