skin

From Norwegian ski + -an (infinitive suffix).


skin

head

skin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


skin

nl-noun

skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

skins (plural)
skinnetje (diminutive neuter)


skin

He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.

Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.

2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.

Do you eat the skin on custard?

(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

Pass me a skin, mate.

(countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.

By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.

2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:

(countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.

The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back.

1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361:

(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.

Let me see a bit of skin.

(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

the Bacchic train,
Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar

(Can we date this quote?), “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

(nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.

(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.

He was a decent old skin.

PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”

2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy):

[…] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.

1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

peel

outer protective layer of a plant or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

هدورة

skin and fur of an animal used by humans

面板

image used as the background of graphical user interface

nahka

subgroup within an Australian aboriginal people

skini

alternate appearance for a 3D character model in a video game

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”).
See also Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed. Not related to shin.


skin

He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

(transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).

The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.

2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC:

(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.

A wound eventually skins over.

(intransitive) To become covered with skin.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

(transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

(US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

(slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

(intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.

en-verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

skins (present singular third-person)
skinning (participle present)
skinned (participle past)
skinned (past)

een skin gebruiken

to use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of

финтирам

soccer: to use tricks to go past a defender

peittää ihollaan

to cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially

luntata

to produce the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs

обирам

to strip of money or property (colloquially)


skin

head

skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

skins (genitive singular)
skin (nominative plural)
skin (indefinite nominative singular)
skinið (definite nominative singular)
skin (indefinite nominative plural)
skinin (definite nominative plural)
skin (accusative indefinite singular)
skinið (accusative definite singular)
skin (accusative indefinite plural)
skinin (accusative definite plural)
skini (dative indefinite singular)
skininu (dative definite singular)
skinum (dative indefinite plural)
skinunum (dative definite plural)
skins (genitive indefinite singular)
skinsins (definite genitive singular)
skina (genitive indefinite plural)
skinanna (definite genitive plural)


skin

(computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)

(countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)


skin

Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:


skin

skins (nominative plural)
skin (nominative singular)
skins (nominative plural)
skina (genitive singular)
skinas (genitive plural)
skine (dative singular)
skines (dative plural)
skini (accusative singular)
skinis (accusative plural)
o skin! (singular vocative)
o skins! (plural vocative)
skinu (predicative singular)
skinus (plural predicative)