单词 | skint |
释义 | skintadj. colloquial (originally British). Penniless, broke. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money to the boneOE silverlessc1325 pennilessc1330 moneylessc1400 impecunious1596 crossless1600 penceless1605 unmoneyed1606 coinless1614 emptya1643 out of pocket1679 money-bound1710 broke1716 embarrassed1744 stiver cramped1785 plackless1786 taper1789 poundlessa1794 shillingless1797 unpennied1804 fundless1809 impecuniary1814 hard up1821 soldier-thighed1825 cashless1833 stiverless1839 fly-blown1853 strapped1857 stick1859 tight1859 stone-broke1886 stony1886 oofless1888 stony-broke1890 motherless1906 penny-pinched1918 skinned1924 skint1925 on the beach1935 potless1936 boracic1959 uptight1967 brassic1982 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 260 Skint, to be, hard up. 1935 ‘G. Ingram’ Cockney Cavalcade vii. 97 Edina offered him a shilling. ‘That's all right... I ain't “skint” yet.’ 1968 S. Gore Holy Smoke 60 He wouldn't have minded leasin' the joint to some blokes who'd been having a bit of a stiff trot, and was too skint to start up on their own. 1977 S. Milligan in Observer 6 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 32/2 McGonagall..journeyed on foot (he was skint) from Dundee to Balmoral. 1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet (1990) vi. 485 I'm afraid we're skint, we were awfully cheated by Mario who left everything for us to pay. 2004 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Oct. (News section) 10 Deferring the work is not an option... The trouble is, the council is skint. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1925 |
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