skinner
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
Definition of skinner
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- Someone who skins animals.
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noun
- 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.
- (Canada, derogatory, slang)A child sexual abuser.
- (slang)An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.
name
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A surname originating as an occupation.
““As typical of a flu season, some areas are being harder hit than other areas,” said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.”
- An unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
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