skint

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,slang
    — 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.
  2. skinned slang

词形变化

skinter comparative more skint comparative skintest superlative most skint superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
skintly skintness

词源

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.
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