skint
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skint
- /skɪnt/ US, UK
- /skʌnt/ Scotland
Rhymes with -ɪnt
Where it comes from
A variant of skinned (“having the skin removed; (informal) broke, penniless”, adjective).
Any similarity to skin a flint (“to go to great lengths to gain or save something, particularly money”) (referring to the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its outer layer without shattering it) and its derivative skinflint (“one who is excessively cautious or stingy with money”) is coincidental.
adjective skinter · more skint · skintest · most skint
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Having insufficient or no money; broke, penniless.
The Room of that there 'Arold Pinter / Ain't one as I'd care to come inter! / 'Is blokes are grotesquer / Than them 'uns of Wesker, / They're balmier, mate, an' they're skinter!
Similar: boracic[Cockney rhyming slang]]>, boracic lint[Cockney rhyming slang]]>, impecunious, poor, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke · Opposite: bow-legged wi' brass, comfortably off, filthy rich, loaded, fat, minted, moneyed, moneybags, of means, oofy, rich, rich as Croesus
verb
- simple past and past participle of skin (alternative form of skinned).
Translations
Talk about this word "skint." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/skint. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. skint. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/skint "skint." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/skint.Cite this
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