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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Translations
[edit]someone who skins animals
References
[edit]- (gambling slang): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]skinner c
Verb
[edit]skinner
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]skinner m or f
Verb
[edit]skinner
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