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English
Etymology
From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).
Pronunciation
Noun
skinner (plural skinners)
- Someone who skins animals.
- A hunting knife used for skinning animal carcasses.
- A machine used for removing the skin from animal carcasses.
- One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
- (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
- (gambling, slang) An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.
Derived terms
Translations
someone who skins animals
References
- (gambling slang): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Danish
Noun
skinner c
- indefinite plural of skinne
Verb
skinner
- present of skinne
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
skinner m or f
- indefinite plural of skinne
Verb
skinner
- present of skinne