# skint

Pronunciation: say "SKINT" /skɪnt/

## Adjective

1. Having little or no money to spend. *(slang, Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: Having very little money, or none at all.
   - _I'm completely skint until payday, so I'll give the pub a miss tonight._
   - _As skint students, they lived on beans on toast for most of the term._
2. Having had the skin stripped or scraped off. *(dialectal, US)*
   - Simple: With the skin taken off or scraped off.
   - _He limped home from the playground with a skint knee and a torn sleeve._
   - _"I slid down that gravel bank, and now both my elbows are skint and stinging," Jody told her mama._

## Verb

3. A regional past form of skin, heard chiefly in the US, that serves as both past tense and past participle, standing in for skinned.
   - Simple: A past form of the verb skin, used mostly in parts of the US instead of skinned.
   - _I skint my shin on the porch steps chasing the dog last night._
   - _After the hunt, my uncle skint both rabbits out behind the barn while the rest of us got the fire going for supper._

## Origin

A variant of skinned, used since the early 20th century for someone left with no money, as if stripped bare. Despite the look, it has no link to skinflint or skin a flint.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/skint (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).