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skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)

skepe (plural)
skippie (diminutive)
skepie (diminutive)

→ Northern Ndebele: isikepe

→ Shona: chikepe

→ Sotho: sekepe

→ Tsonga: xikepe

→ Xhosa: isikhephe

→ Zulu: isikebhe


skip

She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.

2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:

The rock will skip across the pond.

After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:

(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

(transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

My heart will skip a beat.

I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

(transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

to skip the country

a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill

I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
She really want to skip town
Get back off me, beast off me
Get back you flea-infested mongrel

(transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

to skip the rope

The girls were skipping in the playground.

To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)

(knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

en-verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

skips (present singular third-person)
skipping (participle present)
skipped (participle past)
skipped (past)

flippen

throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface

пропускам

omit or disregard intermediate items or stages

пропускам

knitting, crocheting: pass by a stitch as if it were not there

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”).
Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.


skip

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.

2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond, page 19:

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

(informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.


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(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).

Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.

1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

Fördergefäß

mining: transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).


skip

(transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).


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A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

(sometimes as a term of address) The captain of a sports team.

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.

(scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).


skip

2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,
Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
Barber: She is Australian.
Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.

(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).


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Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]

1703, Edward Ward, The London-spy Compleat, 5th edition, volume 1, part 7, published 1713, page 157:

He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"

1842 October, Billy Sheridan, “Reminiscences of College Life”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 682:

His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?

1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Flight after Defeat”, in The History of Pendennis:

(Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.

Trinity College; Dublin; Trinity College; Dublin

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.


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My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.

(slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.


skip

fo-noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)

skips (genitive singular)
skip (plural)
skip (indefinite nominative singular)
skipið (definite nominative singular)
skip (indefinite nominative plural)
skipini (definite nominative plural)
skip (accusative indefinite singular)
skipið (accusative definite singular)
skip (accusative indefinite plural)
skipini (accusative definite plural)
skipi (dative indefinite singular)
skipinum (dative definite singular)
skipum (dative indefinite plural)
skipunum (dative definite plural)
skips (genitive indefinite singular)
skipsins (definite genitive singular)
skipa (genitive indefinite plural)
skipanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.


skip

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skip

is-noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)

skips (genitive singular)
skip (nominative plural)
skip (indefinite nominative singular)
skipið (definite nominative singular)
skip (indefinite nominative plural)
skipin (definite nominative plural)
skip (accusative indefinite singular)
skipið (accusative definite singular)
skip (accusative indefinite plural)
skipin (accusative definite plural)
skipi (dative indefinite singular)
skipinu (dative definite singular)
skipum (dative indefinite plural)
skipunum (dative definite plural)
skips (genitive indefinite singular)
skipsins (definite genitive singular)
skipa (genitive indefinite plural)
skipanna (definite genitive plural)


skip

skipet (definite singular)
skip (indefinite plural)
skipa (definite plural)
skipene (definite plural)

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Cognate with Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.


skip

skipet (definite singular)
skip (indefinite plural)
skipa (definite plural)

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Akin to English ship.


skip

skips (genitive)
skip (plural)
skip (indefinite nominative singular)
skipit (definite nominative singular)
skip (indefinite nominative plural)
skipin (definite nominative plural)
skip (accusative indefinite singular)
skipit (accusative definite singular)
skip (accusative indefinite plural)
skipin (accusative definite plural)
skipi (dative indefinite singular)
skipinu (dative definite singular)
skipum (dative indefinite plural)
skipunum (dative definite plural)
skips (genitive indefinite singular)
skipsins (definite genitive singular)
skipa (genitive indefinite plural)
skipanna (definite genitive plural)

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Icelandic: skip

Faroese: skip

Norwegian Nynorsk: skip

Old Swedish: skip

Swedish: skepp

Old Danish: skip

Danish: skib

Norwegian Bokmål: skip

Scanian: śevv

→ Irish: scib

→ Scottish Gaelic: sgioba

From Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).


skip

skip (nominative singular)
skipu (nominative plural)
skip (accusative singular)
skipu (accusative plural)
skipes (genitive singular)
skipō (genitive plural)
skipe (dative singular)
skipum (dative plural)

Middle Low German: schip, schep

German Low German: Schipp, Schepp

From Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English sċip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.


skip

(Elbe Germanic) any hollow or concave manmade object

skip (nominative singular)
skipu (nominative plural)
skip (accusative singular)
skipu (accusative plural)
skipas (genitive singular)
skipō (genitive plural)
skipē (dative singular)
skipum (dative plural)
skipu (instrumental singular)
skipum (instrumental plural)

Old English: sċip, sċyp

Middle English: schip, schup

Scots: ship, schip

English: ship

→ Esperanto: ŝipo

Old Frisian: skip

North Frisian: schap (Mooring), Skep (Sylt)

Saterland Frisian: Skip, Schip

West Frisian: skip

Old Saxon: skip

Middle Low German: schip, schep

Low German: Schipp

German Low German: Schipp, Schip

Plautdietsch: Schepp

Old Dutch: *skip, scip

Middle Dutch: schip, schep

Dutch: schip

Afrikaans: skip

Limburgish: sjeep

desctree

Old High German: skif, skef
Middle High German: schif, schef
Bavarian: Schiff, Scheff
Central Franconian: Scheff, Schoff, Schöff (parts of Eifel, southwestern Ripuarian)
Hunsrik: Schiff
Luxembourgish: Schëff
German: Schiff
Yiddish: שיף (shif)
→ Old Italian: schifo
Italian: schifo
⇒ English: skeevy
⇒ English: skeeve
→ Middle French: esquif
French: esquif
→ Middle English: skif
English: skiff
→ Russian: скиф (skif)


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skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)

From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.