skink
IPA: skˈɪŋk
noun
- (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
- (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
- (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
- A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
- (obsolete) A drink.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
- (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.
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Examples of "skink" in Sentences
- HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail.
- mcz: Oh, and one of the things I noticed about the skink was the concrete.
- But the idea of skink control in a space as large as a ladies 'room is frightening.
- This particular individual had 4 upper labial scales, which would make it a five-lined skink.
- It is either the common five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) or the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps).
- Although cullen skink relies upon a certain amount of milk or cream to give it richness, when and how much to add varies wildly.
- Of the animals that move about on the ground, these are unclean for you: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon.
- It's utterly delicious – the fish has flavoured the milk beautifully – but so rich that I can only imagine eating it in tiny, restaurant portions, rather than the big steaming bowls I think cullen skink deserves.
- Rice is nice – think paella, or kedgeree – but this is one of those rare and beautiful unions where both parties shine brighter in each other's company: from poached salmon and Jersey royals to Jansson's temptation and cullen skink, the combination just works.
- The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef".
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