skipn.1
/skɪp/, U.S. /skɪp/ 1. figurative.1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Whether by Art's rude force, or Natures skip I know not.1667 S. Pepys Diary 26 Apr. (1974) VIII. 185 And hath come into his place..with a great skip over the heads of a great many.1817 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1837) IV. iii. 84 I..had hoped..to have indulged myself with a skip over the Border.
a. An act of skipping; a slight bound or spring. hop, skip, and jump (see hop n.2 3).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping lightly or skipping > a skip
scope13..
skipc1440
skitter1905
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 290/2 Lawnche, or skyppe, saltus.
c1450 Mir. Saluac. (Roxb.) 165 The ydicus [sic] made a skippe fro heven to the anone.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 For mirth of May wyth skippis and wyth happis The birdis sang vpon the tender croppis.
1647 J. Trapp Mellificium Theol. in Comm. Epist. & Rev. 655 Father Latimer..suddenly gave a skip in the floor for joy.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 43 Nor did I mount them [sc. the steps] with a skip and a couple of strides.
1807 Salmagundi 7 Mar. 99 She was a young lady of most voluminous proportions, that quivered at every skip.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped ii. 11 The woman..turned with a skip, and was gone.
b. = leap n.1 3.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > copulation > covering
covering1552
leap1607
supersaliency1646
service1696
insult1697
skip1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 478 Two or three thorough skips are quite sufficient for the purposes of conception.
2.
a. An act of passing from one thing or point to another with omission or disregard of what intervenes.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > [noun] > passing over, omission > instance of
overlopea1400
skip1656
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. v. 8 Not conferring places upon her Nobility by skips and leaps, but by degrees and gradation.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 127 Nor do I imagine that the skips from the one to another will be found very great.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. v. 36 To avert the disastrous consequences of a twelve hours' skip in their polar reckonings.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 197 It is a long skip between 1789 and 1807.
b. Music. A passing from one note to another at a greater interval than one degree.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > passing more than one degree
skipping1566
leap1664
skip1730
1730 Short Treat. Harmony v. 29 It is only in the foresaid Skips that we can make use of Discords upon the accented Part of the Bar.
1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint vii In three-part counterpoint skips are always to be avoided.
1873 H. C. Banister Music 53 Two successive wide skips in the same direction being generally undesirable.
c. Matter in a book which may be skipped in reading.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding
stuffing1551
bombast1575
fill-space1827
skip1833
padding1861
Polyfilla1979
1833 T. B. Macaulay Horace Walpole in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 239 In his books there are scarcely any of those passages which, in our school days, we used to call skip.
1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 122 The scenes in which his heroines are on the stage are skip. Amine's appearances, however, are not skip.
d. Poker. = skip straight n. at skip v.1 Compounds.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand > combinations of cards
triplet1864
royal flush1868
bobtailed flush1873
bobtail flush1875
skip1880
royal straight1883
four flush1887
skip straight1887
inside straight1934
1880 J. Blackbridge Compl. Poker-player vii. 48 ‘Skips’ consisting of alternate cards in sequence for instance, 3, 5, 7, 9, Jack.
1905 R. F. Foster Pract. Poker 75 A skip is almost twice as difficult to get as any other straight, the exact odds against it being 423 to 1.
1909 R. F. Foster Complete Hoyle 214 Skip or Dutch Straight, any sequence of alternate cards, of various suits. Beats two pairs and a blaze.
e. Radio. The phenomenon of the poor or non-existent reception of signals from a particular station which occurs between points where signals propagated directly from the station become undetectable and points where signals begin again to be received owing to reflection in the upper atmosphere. Also applied to the silent region itself, and to radio signals received from beyond it.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception
blind spot1864
screening1902
fading1912
night effect1914
night error1921
wipeout1921
skip1925
radio fade-out1927
fade-out1937
1925 [see skip region n. at Compounds 1].
1927 O. F. Brown Elem. Radio Communication xvi. 203 The existence of the skip is explained by there being insufficient electrons to bring the wave down again until the angle of incidence becomes that corresponding to the 500 range.
1931 Observer 8 Nov. 18/5 Because of ‘skip’ it will hardly ever be audible in this country.
1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular iv. 114 The ‘skip’ was explained..as being the heavenward arc made by the path of the waves emitted by the short-wave transmitters.
1976 R. L. Perkowski & L. P. Stral Joy of CB vii. 68 The FCC purposely limited CB operations to distances under 150 miles to preclude the use of skip.
1976 S9 (N.Y.) Feb. 88/2 When CB skip starts rolling in, he says that's the time to start tuning 25 to 50 MHz.
f. In automatic data processing, the action of a machine (e.g. a punch) in passing over material not requiring the functioning of the machine; a computer instruction or routine specifying such action.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > action of disregarding
skip1946
society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [noun] > instruction > instruction to skip
skip1969
1946 [see skip bar n. at Compounds 2].
1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 91 Machines in current use can perform the function called skip wherein a field in which no punching is required is rapidly passed under the punch knives, which are not active at the time.
1966 H. P. Hartkemeier Data Processing iv. 199/1 All functions of the machine are stopped while a skip is taking place.
1969 P. B. Jordain Condensed Computer Encycl. 468 An unconditional skip is a computer instruction demanding that the next n instructions be ignored.
1976 Kernigan & Plauger Software Tools iii. 80 Skip produces n blank lines.
3. [probably short for skip-kennel n.] A footman, lackey, or manservant. In later use spec. at Trinity College, Dublin, a college-servant, a scout.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > college servants
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sacrist1638
gyp1676
skip1699
scout1708
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy
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Sim Shakebuckler?1560
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Jack1836
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John1848
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. vii. 7 As a Courtiers Footman, when he meets his Brother Skip.
1716–20 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) I. 142 I was surprized to see a Skip transformed so speedily into a Trumpeter.
1732 R. Dodsley Muse in Livery 20 Then to the hall I guide my steps, Amongst a croud of brother skips.
1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer xiii Call your own skip.., damn me if I'll be your skip any longer.
1884 Punch 22 Mar. 141/2 A good man once, now, so his skip informs me,..smokes six or seven pipes of strong tobacco..every night.
4. North American colloquial. One who absconds, spec. to avoid paying debts; one who defaults in payment.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who
deficient1697
lame duck1761
defaulter1808
man of straw1823
waddler1831
shicer1896
skip1915
shyster1938
1915 J. R. Foote Mod. Collection Methods 32 In some lines of business, much, and in some, most of the collection department work is the tracing of skips. A skip is a handy term used to describe a debtor who finds it easy to forget to leave any tracks when he moves his earthly possessions.
1939 Amer. Speech 14 240 Skip, guest who leaves without paying his bill.
1949 Collier's 8 Jan. 27/1 Kleinman's book of procedures lists exactly 110 ways to trace a skip.
1978 Detroit Free Press 14 Apr. 2 c/2 Jean Phelan traces all kinds of hard-to-locate ‘skips’—the defaulters who have ‘skipped’ out.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. (In sense 2e.)
skip distance n.
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1926 Physical Rev. 27 189 Larmor's theory of refraction due to the electrons of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer does not explain the ‘skip distances’ for short radio waves.
1930 B.B.C. Year-bk. 451/2 Skip distance, the distance between the point where the direct ray from a transmitting station becomes so attenuated as to be inaudible, and the point where the reflected or indirect ray strikes the earth's surface. The skip distance is a function of the wave-length employed and increases with a decrease in wave-length.
1931 Observer 8 Nov. 18/5 The shorter the wave, the greater the ‘skip’ distance as a rule.
1977 T. Allbeury Man with President's Mind vii. 75 The radiated strength was fifty kilowatts..a power of about seventy-five kilometres due east. It would be the skip distance that carried it to Washington, or a relay from London.
skip region n.
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1925 Proc. IRE 13 680 An uncertain region not far from the transmitter has been introduced between 100 and 350 miles during the summer night range and a skip, or entirely-missed, region, occurs in the winter night ranges between 100–350 miles.
skip zone n.
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1926 Physical Rev. 27 192 The skip zone was not very sharply defined.
1946 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 27 Jan. i. 16/6 The skip zone is one of the knottiest problems of present-day radio communications.
C2. (In sense 2f.)
skip bar n.
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1946 Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. 1 274 Cards may be punched containing a function in the first columns of the cards and a serial number in the last columns of the cards. After the function is punched, a duplicating card and skip bar control the punch.
C3. (In sense 4.)
skip-trace n.
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1970 K. Conway Naked Nemesis ii. 18 The last one hadn't paid me... There wasn't enough involved for me to start a skip-trace on him.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. i. 119 The Yanks think we need it [sc. a safe house] for a skip-trace outfit. They think we've lost somebody.
skip-tracer n.
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1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §460/18 Skip tracer, a tracer of defaulting debtors.
1960 P. S. Beagle Fine & Private Place i. 12 You ran away from it [sc. life] nineteen years ago, and it follows you like a skip-tracer.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Sept. 3/2 Mr. Lillie testified that he is a skip-tracer who tracks down persons who default on their debts then change addresses.
skip-tracing adj. and n.
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1960 J. Blish Galactic Cluster 124 If he has rebuilt..the Universe to accommodate a private skiptracing firm..I..see no reason why we can't countercheck him.
1977 B. Garfield Recoil xi. 134 This is..better than repossessing cars and skip-tracing.
Draft additions 1993
An act or instance of absconding; a flit. colloquial (originally North American).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > going away suddenly or hurriedly > secretly or absconding
absconding1676
elopementa1763
flight1769
levanting1788
sneak1819
absconsion1827
skip1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §58/2 Hasty or unceremonious departure,..skidaddle, skip, slope.
1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xxviii. 331 It was a very professional skip.
1981 ‘A. Hall’ Pekin Target ix. 95 I'd left my things in Room 29 as..routine procedure for a skip, to let them assume I was simply out for the evening.
1987 Age (Melbourne) 7 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 6/5 ‘Sometimes, our clients sit down in front of us and cry,’ says Mrs Roberts. Some contemplate suicide or ‘doing a skip’.
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skipn.2
In mining or quarrying, a bucket, box, basket, cage, or wagon, in which materials or men are drawn up or let down. Also gen., a large container for the reception and conveyance of materials or rubbish.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material
skip1816
kettle1894
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]
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prickle1543
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fender1682
canister1697
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voider1788
wick1802
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > container for collection and conveyance of rubbish
dumpster1937
skip1940
1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Chron. 86/1 Some colliers were descending into a coal pit,..five in one skip and four in the other.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss.
1884 Building News 15 Aug. 283/3 The mortar and other rubbish was also lowered in skips.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 775/2 Skip,..a bucket used for the transport of spoil or materials and hung for this purpose from a crane or cableway.
1950 Landfall (N.Z.) IV. 125 We start loading seasoned timber into one of the skips.
1972 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 3/3 Householders who leave builders' skips—large containers which can be hired to take away rubble—at the kerbside for collection by a special vehicle face fines of up to £100 under a law coming into force today.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 8/8 There will be a skip placed at the Town Hall, St. Columb and at the entrance to Halloon Avenue, St. Columb Road, on Friday, 28th. April, and at the Town Hall and Public Conveniences, Indian Queens on Friday, 12th. May, 1978 for Bulk Household refuse collections.
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skipn.3
/skɪp/, U.S. /skɪp/, Scottish English /skɪp/ Originally Scottish.
The director or captain of a curling or bowling team or side. Also gen., a captain, a commanding officer, a manager, a boss.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > curler > captain
skip1830
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > [noun] > player > captain of side
skip1830
society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who is in charge
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old man1668
governor1783
head woman1799
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Guv1861
Maluka1905
big guy1921
skip1921
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boss-man1934
pitch-and-toss1942
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head honcho1952
1830 Memorab. Curl. Maben. 29 The other skips having arranged among themselves, the boards were selected [etc.].
1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 368/1 Sides are made up, usually consisting of four against four, with a director styled skip for each.
1881 Sat. Rev. No. 1318. 138 A great moorland farmer having to figure as skip on the one side.
1921 Amer. Legion Weekly 28 Jan. 7 The skip wanted to investigate.
1930 T. Fredenburgh Soldiers March! xxv. 201 Better get into a wagon somewhere..in case the Skip starts prowling.
1948 M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xiii. 163 I've been chinning with the old Skip and he says Bang on, jolly good show.
1955 Times 15 Aug. 8/5 In rink games the ‘skip’, or captain, of each side stands near the jack to direct his men by voice or signal where their next shot should arrive.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 35/5 In addition to winning several minor bonspiels, the Thornhill skip is in the last 16 for the Ontario Curling Association Championship.
1970 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 July 18/6 If you're ever called up to play baseball in the big leagues, be sure to call the manager ‘Skip’. Managers like to be called Skip.
1973 ‘D. Kyle’ Raft of Swords (1974) viii. 81 On the flight deck..the young navigator said, ‘I don't really understand what we're looking for, skip.’ ‘Just Russian warships.’
1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. i. 10/3 Who are Arthur Connew's great heroes in all those many years and thousands of ends of bowling? J. S. Martin in the singles and Jimmy Mingins and Mort Squire as skips.
1977 S. Wales Guardian 27 Oct. 4/5 Skip Mr. Cliff Davies invested new members to the scout troop.
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skipn.4
(See quots.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > quantity of syrup
skipping1824
skip1858
skepping1883
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Skip, in sugar-making in the West Indies, a charge or strike of syrup from the coppers.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 163/2 The difficulty is determining the exact moment when the boiling of the ‘sling’ in the striking-teach must cease, i.e. when to make a ‘skip’.
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† skipn.5
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
(See quot. 1688.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of goat > quantity of 50 goatskins
skip1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 260/2 Goat skins are reckoned by the skip, which is 50 Skins.
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skipn.6
= schipperke n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of
Eskimo dog1774
Eskimo1830
husky1871
elk-hound1878
Malamute1884
schipperke1887
Samoyed1889
skip1895
Eskimo husky1896
laika1905
keeshond1926
Akita1928
Siberian1928
Finnish Spitz1930
Siberian husky1930
1895 Our Dogs I. 128/2 The best class of Skips ever seen in England.
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skipn.7
/skɪp/, U.S. /skɪp/, Scottish English /skɪp/ Originally Scottish.
The peak of a cap.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > projecting front > (peak) of cap
peak1660
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skip1888
bill1935
1888 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings 2nd Ser. 29 Ye're surely no ettlin' to put on that ugly twa-faced kep..wi' the skip baith back an' fore?
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left ii. 11 He adjusted his American fatigue cap so that the skip almost covered his eyes.
1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xi. 207 ‘Hiya, Jo. Did you make it?’ asked Don, peering up from beneath his cap skip.
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skipv.1
I. intransitive.
1. figurative.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 319 If at any time he skipped higher, he afterwards fell lower.
a. To raise oneself off the ground by a light and graceful movement; to spring or leap lightly and easily, spec. in the exercise of skipping with a rope.
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a1300 Cursor Mundi 23569 For to skip and for to rin, Quen it war better for to blin.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 95 With such gladnesse I daunce and skippe, Me thenkth I touche noght the flor.
1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 120 Seeknesse..paieth me my wage, So þat me neithir daunce list, ne skippe.
c1460 Wisdom in Macro Plays 54 For ioy, I sprynge, I sckyppe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 719 Are you nat ashamed to skyppe thus in your daunsynge, lyke a gyrle of the countray?
1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 227 The grassehopper..skipped, leapt and chirpte, in her kinde.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 27 [These nymphs] would oft run races, skipping like wanton Lambes.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 54 Up he skips upon his Legs, as manfully as a Taylor upon a Shop-board.
1792 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 228 Sophia skipt with joy, & Cecilia was all smiles.
1844 T. Hood Skipping i Little Children skip, The rope so gaily gripping.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile x. 259 He skips, and screams, and grins like an ubiquitous goblin.
b. With cognate object. rare.
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1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. K Force the plump lipt god, Skip light lauoltaes in your full sapt vaines.
2. figurative.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xxxviii. 37 And thei schulen not skippe ouer in to the chirche.a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. N3 Insomuch that they say when the gods made beautie, they skipt beyond their skill.1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 58 The Faith of the Gospel (unto which he now skips).
a. To spring or leap lightly in a certain direction or to a certain point; to move or advance by a skip or skips. Const. with adverbs and prepositions.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > lightly or skip
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > lightly or skip > in a certain direction
skipa1300
a1300 K. Horn (Ritson) 1361 The knyht to Horn gan skippe, And in his armes clippe.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xiv. 13 Barnabas and Poul..scipten out into the cumpanyes.
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 1108 Hym to awreke, kyng Philipp Ouer þe table gan to skipp.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxvii. 552 Gaheries toke the horse..to Gueheret his brother, and made hym skippe in to the sadell.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark Pref. 4 Hou uncomely a thing it were if a Philosophier would..scip about the stage.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 6 On sands from vessels dooth skippe thee coompanye cheereful.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 158 Thus burthened, [he] shal trauell till hee come where he can skip into Paradice.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads (1677) 266 Let none from hence again retire..Nor any man before the rest skip out.
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 58 He was very much surprised to see Eighteen young Men skipping one after another into his House.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 146 She skipped along, with the alertness of an antelope.
1841 B. Hall Patchwork III. 146 Our walker skipped from rock to rock at a great rate.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 955 They skip up stairs two at a time.
b. To hasten, hurry, move lightly and rapidly; to make off, abscond. Also with out and as to skip it. Now colloquial.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
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runOE
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to flee (one's) touch?1515
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to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
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scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
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hastec1300
pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
buskc1330
rapc1330
rapec1330
skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
hotfoot1896
to rattle one's dags1968
shimmy1969
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and briskly
fisk1393
trotc1416
whippet1540
skip1587
skice1591
trig1599
brisk1727
nip1825
june1869
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily > secretly or abscond
to run awayOE
elope1596
to step aside1620
abscond1652
shirk1681
decamp1751
levant1797
absconce1823
skip1865
skin1871
to shoot the crow1887
sneak1896
to go through1933
to take a run-out powder1933
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 255 To Paris gan he skip, & held his parlement.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 2920 Eche man..with his god schippes And alle here good thedur skippes.
1479 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 615 Ye had ned to be ware that th' exchetor slyppe not fro yow when he comyth to London.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 142/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The foresaid rebels, who skipped to and fro in such sort, that in no case could he find them at any aduantage.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Bii What is Orlando but a stragling mate,..Skipt from his country.
1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xix. 305 By Jove, you'd better skip for it, or you'll have what Captain M—— says.
1865 M. Grigsby Diary 3 Jan. in Smoked Yank (1888) xxi. 179 Thirteen [paroled men]..skipped out to-day.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 107 So, to throw her father off the scent, on the appointed night we ‘skipped’ and went by way of Fort James.
1902 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Jan. 265/2 Skip out for the coast some night.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 193 Juvenile language is well stocked..with expressions inviting a person's departure, for instance:..skip it, sling your hook, [etc.].
a1966 ‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 308 The son turned out to be a very bad bit of work, sold all the furniture to buy drink..and then skipped it to America.
1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol xxxv. 231 He tells Dona Margarita we seem to have skipped out together.
1977 J. Thomson Case Closed ii. 21 Bibby hadn't turned up. He wondered if he had skipped out.
3.
a. To pass from one point, matter, etc., to another with omission of what intervenes; in modern use spec. to do this in reading.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or negligent [verb (intransitive)] > do something without thoroughness > by passing over or omission
skipc1385
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatra. 622 The weddynge & the feste to deuyse..It were to longe,..And for thy to thefeect thanne wele I skyppe.
1559 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. App. xi. 35 He that woulde challenge kyndred of Constantyne the Great, and woulde from his father skippe upp streight to Constantyne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 200 I had rather Haue skipt from sixteene yeares of Age, to sixty. View more context for this quotation
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. ii. 150 I must really spare the reader two thirds of this portentous list, and skip for him to the conclusion.
1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life iv. iv. 163 The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
b. Similarly with over. Also sometimes, to pass over with very slight or superficial treatment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > be careless or heedless of [verb (transitive)] > pass over without adequate attention
skip1412
slip1513
to run over ——1577
overtripa1583
scanta1616
slight1620
slur1660
slur1725
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 4417 Late him be with sorwe, And skippeth ouer wher ȝe list nat rede.
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Prætereo,..to make no mencion of, to skippe ouer, to leaue out a thyng, that shulde be spoken of.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 454 The nimble Perfunctorinesse of some Commentators (that skip over hard Places).
1725 I. Watts Logick 344 They skip over, and but lightly touch the drier part of their theme.
1843 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages (1890) xv. 274 As I am not writing history,..let us skip over rather more than a century.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 248 I might have skipped over these difficulties like the proverbial chamois.
4.
a. Of things, in literal or figurative senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > lightly or skip > specifically of things
skipc1386
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋361 In this wise skippeth venial in to deedly synne.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 113 Quhou hir schort catt nois vp skippis.
1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like sig. C.iiv The barel was turned to a ship, Whiche me thought the winde made liuely to skip.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 25 Bright Palestine, Whose woods drop honie, and her rivers skip with wine.
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1667) 330 Just as the Loadstone draws Iron to it, and makes it skip into its Bosome.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 193 Quick sensations skip from vein to vein.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 187 The landlord stirred the fire, sending the flames skipping and leaping up.
b. Music. To pass from one note to another at an interval of more than one degree.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [verb (intransitive)] > pass more than one degree
skip1868
leap1879
1868 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (1875) iii. 52 The seventh may skip sometimes to the fifth on the same bass.
II. transitive.figurative.1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Briggs & I 217 Retired merchants, who had a passion for skipping away their hard dollars on the bottomless pond of fancy cattle-breeding.
5.
a. To pass over in reading, or in going through a book, etc. Also with over, and in figurative context.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > reading > [verb] > to browse rapidly or omit passages
overrunOE
skip1526
to glance over1582
to look inside ——1591
to look into ——1624
to glance through1865
society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > skim or browse or skip
skip1526
launch1570
to run over1577
rufflea1631
leaf1663
to run through1670
to dip into1682
skim1739
thumb-read1825
browse1903
thumb1930
riffle1938
riff1942
skim-read1954
skip-read1977
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. HHHiiiv Nat sparyng your voyces, nat clippyng the syllables, nor skyppyng any worde.
1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. i. sig. B2v Christ skips thy faults, only thy virtue reades.
1604 T. Middleton Ant & Nightingale To Rdr. sig. A4v To skip it ouer, and say that line were naught.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Preface p. iv Those that are well versed in the New Philosophy..may skip what was design'd.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. ii. 21 The doctor looked so earnestly at me, when he skipt two sides of it.
1823 C. Lamb Let. 17 Feb. (1935) II. 369 I do not think that I skipt a word of it [sc. a book].
1875 R. F. Burton Ultima Thule I. xii Let the reader ‘skip’ such photos if he likes.
b. To pass over without mentioning, dealing with, taking into account, etc.; to omit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over
forgetc950
overhipc1300
overgoa1382
overpassa1382
passa1382
to step over ——1387
to pass overc1390
overslipa1400
overskipc1400
overslide1488
overstartc1500
neglect1511
skip1531
to pass by1560
intermit1570
leap1600
overjump1604
jump1749
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)] > omit or leave out
letc900
overleapOE
forletc1200
beleavec1275
overpassa1382
to cut outc1400
overskipc1400
omisec1425
omit1439
to leave outc1450
obmise1490
neglect1511
skip1531
obmit?1541
enterlesse1548
intermit1570
prevade1641
waive1651
suppress1826
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiv. sig. Xvi Oftentimes a..loker on espieth a defaulte, that the doer forgetteth or skyppeth ouer.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 232 How childish an ouersight was it for Paul to skip the whole bench of them.
1669 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. 1 Peter (1685) ii. 66 A day it was, that..we might well wish that the Year would skip it over.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 180 In reckoning up the chief patrons of it, he always skips Justin Martyr.
1787 F. Burney Court Jrnls. & Lett. (2011) II. 128 I shall skip useless recollections upon unpleasant subjects.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 44 Two virtues remain; shall we skip one and go to the other?
1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Reminisc. Great Mutiny 2 I intend to skip much that has already been recorded in the pages of history.
c. To pass over, pass by, without touching or affecting in any way. Also with over.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > operation upon something > have effect on [verb (transitive)] > leave unaffected
skip1600
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. N He (making a reuerse blow)..enters the linings [of a doublet], and skips the flesh. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 111 Let not thy sword skip one: Pitty not honour'd Age for his white Beard. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. Middleton Women beware Women ii. ii, in 2 New Playes (1657) 116 All means to come, by riches or advancement, Miss me, and skip me over.
1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Notes xxxi. 162 He passed over, or skipped, those houses, and forbore to smite them.
1885 G. Allen Charles Darwin ii. 25 It is fashionable to say..that the mental energy skips a generation.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. viii. 155 Sometimes it [the plague] skips a house, a village, or a district.
d. To miss, escape from. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)]
atwendOE
atwindc1000
overfleeOE
to come out of ——lOE
atstertc1220
atbreak?c1225
aschapea1300
scapea1300
aslipc1325
escape1340
atscapea1350
astartc1374
to wade out ofc1386
starta1400
withscapea1400
withslipa1400
atwapec1400
to get out of ——a1470
evite1503
outstart1513
to get from ——1530
rid1615
skip1630
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 132/2 Ther's nothing of him that doth hanging skip Except his eares.
e. skip it, let's skip it: an exhortation or command to drop a subject or forget something. Originally U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cease from thinking or talking about > pursue a matter no further > pursue the matter no further!
let's skip it1934
1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 395 Skip it, drop the matter.
1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xiii. 97 I started to say: ‘What the hell—!’ ‘Oh, skip it,’ Eddie Mars sighed.
1943 M. McCarthy Company she Keeps vi. 195 ‘Oh, Dr James,’ she sighed. ‘Let's skip it this time.’
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 17 Oh, very conscientious, I'm sure. Skip it and get a move on.
1955 E. Cadell Lark shall Sing x. 116 ‘I hate to seem to butt in on your——’ ‘Skip it. Go ahead and help me.’
1971 R. Dentry Encounter at Kharmel ii. 31 At home..we cope and never give it a second thought. Out here we——oh, skip it!
1977 New Yorker 3 Oct. 40/3 Forgive me... Let's skip it, then, she says.
f. To forgo, to abstain from; to omit to take part in or to do.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)]
holdc897
forgoa1000
oversitOE
forbearc1200
letc1330
to let bec1385
to lay apart1526
refrain1528
to let pass1530
retainc1540
abstain1578
restrain1594
stay1599
nurture1627
withhold1650
waive1653
inhold1655
withstand1852
skip1961
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The president skipped his regular Thursday press conference.
1970 K. H. Cooper New Aerobics ix. 137 Women suffering from cramps find exercise extremely uncomfortable. Common sense alone tells them to skip exercise during those days.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion ii. ix. 209 They picked at their dinner, unable to eat the roast pigeon..or the salad, and skipping dessert.
6.
a. To jump or leap lightly over (something); to go off, leave (rails).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > leap, spring, or jump over > lightly
skipa1732
society > travel > rail travel > [verb (transitive)] > leave the rails
jump1883
spot1891
skip1903
a1732 J. Swift Tom Mullinex & Dick vii Tom could move with lordly grace, Dick nimbly skip the gutter.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 121 Nelly lightly skipt the stile.
1903 Daily Chron. 18 May 6/5 A little later another car skipped the rails.
b. To absent oneself from, stay away from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > be absent from [verb (transitive)] > absent oneself from
discontinuea1475
to keep from ——a1535
refrain1534
dishaunt1608
disfrequent1646
cut1791
skip1824
1824 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 141 Having one day skipped school to attend a concert.
a1827 W. Hickey Mem. (1960) ii. 28 I had intended to skip school, and take the usual march with the Guards to Kensington.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xxv. 270 If I let you skip school this afternoon and go for a little walk, will you cut out the crazy stuff?
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 1/2 School phobia is a fairly common reason why some kids skip school.
c. U.S. colloquial. To flee (a place).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)] > go away from suddenly or hurriedly
fleeOE
to give the bag to1582
fling1588
vamoose1847
jump1875
skip1884
to leave (a person) flat1902
blow1912
scarper1937
1884 Milnor (Dakota Territory) Teller 12 Sept. The granger school master..skipped the country this week.
1885 Santa Fé Weekly New Mexican 10 Sept. 4/7 George Handley, a laundryman at Albuquerque, has skipped the town.
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 307 The offending gambler had got wind of what was coming to him, and had skipped the town.
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 11-B/1 Cliff won't go along with Molly's scheme to take Olive's $10,000 and skip town.
d. to skip (one's) bail = to jump (one's) bail at jump v. 10a.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > non-payment > be unpaid (of money, wages, etc.) [verb (intransitive)] > leave without paying
to pay with the fore-topsail1834
to jump one's bill1888
swedge1897
to skip (one's) bail1900
1900 Congress. Rec. 5 Feb. 1521/2 I should like the gentleman to know that one lot of those ballot-box stuffers are in jail and every one of the others has skipped his bail.
1930 P. W. Slosson Great Crusade (1931) 88 The I.W.W. leader who had ‘skipped bail’ and fled abroad.
1973 Black Panther 16 June 3/3 Eldridge Cleaver..skipped bail to avoid prosecution.
7. To cause to skip, bound, or jump.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > cause to skip
skip1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 318 He skips his Balls both at once from the first and third Row to the second and fourth Row.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lv. 194 The usual friendly invitation however, was given..by skipping several rifle bullets across the river.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 26 He had skipped pebbles on it and waded across it at low tide.
Compounds
The verbal stem in combination.† skip-frog n. Obsolete the game of leap-frog.
skip-bombing n. (see quot. 1973); also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of
area bombardment1918
straddling1919
pattern-bombing1933
terror-bombing1933
dive-bombing1935
firebombing1935
blind-bombing1940
blitzing1940
coventrating1940
nuisance bombing1940
scatter bombing1940
coventration1942
carpet bombing1943
obliteration bombing1943
skip-bombing1943
shuttle bombing1944
atom bombing1945
atomic bombing1945
clobbering1948
loft-bombing1956
1943 Time 18 Jan. 68/3 A U.S. Flying Fortress thundered into the Jap Harbor at Rabaul..to make the first test in the South Pacific of a new technique—‘skip-bombing’.
1944 W. W. Elton et al. Guide Naval Aviation ix. 172 A skip-bombing airplane must be fast and maneuverable... Tanks and ships are often attacked with skip bombing.
1964 D. Macarthur Reminisc. vi. 171 Special preparations were made to carry out a new technique of skip-bombing in the event of unfavorable weather and low cloud formations.
1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 401/2 Skip bombing, a method of aerial bombing in which the bomb is released from such a low altitude that it slides or glances along the surface of the water or ground and strikes the target at or above water level or ground level.
skip-bone n. = skipjack n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > bones > [noun] > furcula or wishbone
froshell1486
merrythought1598
craw-bone1611
skipjack1805
furculum1833
fourchette1854
furcula1859
wishbone1860
pulling bone1877
pully-bone1897
skip-bone1901
pull-bonea1903
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > toy made from wishbone
skipjack1805
jumping-jack1883
skip-bone1901
1901 E. L. Arnold Lepidus the Centurion ii. 33 As he finished a drum-stick, or pitched a clean-picked skip-bone into the ferns.
skip-brain adj. flighty, hare-brained.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical
startfulmood?a1300
wildc1350
volage?a1366
gerfulc1374
geryc1386
wild-headeda1400
skittishc1412
gerish1430
shittle1440
shittle-witted1448
runningc1449
volageous1487
glaikit1488
fantasious1490
giggish1523
tickle or light of the sear?1530
fantastical1531
wayward1531
wantona1538
peevish1539
light-headed1549
humoral1573
unstaid1579
shittle-headed1580
toy-headed1581
fangled1587
humorous1589
choiceful1591
toyish1598
tricksy1598
skip-brain1603
capricious1605
humoursome1607
planetary1607
vertiginous1609
whimsieda1625
ingiddied1628
whimsy1637
toysome1638
cocklec1640
mercurial1647
garish1650
maggoty1650
kicksey-winseya1652
freakish1653
humourish1653
planetic1653
whimsical1653
shittle-braineda1655
freaking1663
maggoty-headed1667
maggot-pated1681
hoity-toity1690
maggotish1693
maggot-headeda1695
whimsy-headed1699
fantasque1701
crotchetly1702
quixotic1718
volatile1719
holloweda1734
conundrumical1743
flighty1768
fly-away1775
dizzy1780
whimmy1785
shy1787
whimming1787
quirky1789
notional1791
tricksome1815
vagarish1819
freakful1820
faddy1824
moodish1827
mawky1837
erratic1841
rockety1843
quirkish1848
maggoty-pated1850
crotchetya1854
freaksome1854
faddish1855
vagrom1882
fantasied1883
vagarisome1883
on-and-offish1888
tricksical1889
freaky1891
hobby-horsical1893
quirksome1896
temperamental1907
up and down1960
untogether1969
fanciful-
fantastic-
1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 60 This skipp-braine Fancy, moves these easie Movers To loue what ere hath but a glimpse of good.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog
leap-frog1600
truss1627
cock-horse1648
truss-a-faila1658
skip-frog1699
hop-frog1720
frog in the middle (also meadow)1790
fly-the-garter1818
frog over an old dog1847–78
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Skip-Frog, (a sort of Play amongst Boys) La Poste.
skip-louse n. a tailor.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor
seamsterc995
tailor1297
parnterc1400
parmenterc1450
pricklouse?a1513
Tom Tailor1575
stitcher1589
scissor man1593
cutter1599
snip1600
snipper1611
shred1616
needleman1621
fashioner1631
snip-snappera1632
sartor1656
nipshred1661
stult1675
cabbage1694
linen-armourer1699
stitch1699
snip-cabbage1708
tire-man1709
knight of the needlea1777
stay-tape1785
schneider1796
needle-jerker1801
skip-louse1807
darzi1809
cross-legs1823
tog-maker1901
knight of the shears-
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 271 We laugh that win, Since we pay but for one, tho' nine Skip-lice get in.
skip mackerel n. U.S. the blue-fish or skipjack.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Temnodon (skipjack)
horse1672
skipjack1703
snapping mackerel1861
skip mackerel1884
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 433 About New York they are called ‘Skip Mackerel’.
skip-read v. (transitive and intransitive) to read (a book) while skipping the passages of less importance.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > reading > [verb (intransitive)] > skim or browse
browse1818
to look over ——1855
riffle1919
page1927
skim-read1931
skip-read1977
society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > skim or browse or skip
skip1526
launch1570
to run over1577
rufflea1631
leaf1663
to run through1670
to dip into1682
skim1739
thumb-read1825
browse1903
thumb1930
riffle1938
riff1942
skim-read1954
skip-read1977
1977 M. T. Bloom 13th Man (1978) p. ii Skip-read all you want through the book, but go through the last page word by word.
1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 490/1 Once taken up it is not a book which can be skip-read, for every page is packed solid with information.
skip-reader n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > skimmer or browser
skimmer1751
dipper1824
skipper1824
browser1863
skip-reader1973
1973 Howard Jrnl. 13 342 A very clear and easy to read book which should present no difficulties to the skip-reader.
skip-rope n. a skipping rope ( Cent. Dict.).
skip straight n. Poker a straight (straight n. 5) consisting of cards of alternate values.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand > combinations of cards
triplet1864
royal flush1868
bobtailed flush1873
bobtail flush1875
skip1880
royal straight1883
four flush1887
skip straight1887
inside straight1934
1887 J. W. Keller Game of Draw Poker 17 Efforts have been made to introduce into the game of Draw Poker what is known as the ‘skip’ straight—a sequence of alternate cards.
1944 A. H. Morehead Mod. Hoyle 31 Skip straight, a sequence of cards once separated in rank. Examples: A—Q—10—8—6, or J—9—7—5—3.
skip-tail n. a spring-tail.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Apterygota or Ametabola > [noun] > order Collembola > member of
springtail1781
skip-tail1839
silver-fish1855
collembolan1873
walking fish1877
shiner1914
collem1924
silver lady-
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/1 The small insect called Podura Plumbea, the common Skiptail.
skip-tooth n. (see quot. 1875).
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2196/2 Skip-tooth Saw, a saw in which alternate teeth are cut out.
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skipv.2
transitive. To transfer (sugar) from one vessel to another in the process of manufacture.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [verb (transitive)] > transfer to vessel
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a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 87 Till it becomes sufficiently free from impurities to be skipped off, that is, to be again ladled out of the coppers and spread into the coolers.
1843 G. R. Porter Nature & Properties Sugar Cane (ed. 2) 211 When the sugar is perfectly clarified it is skipped off, or passed into another vessel.
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skipv.3
transitive. To command or direct (a team in curling or bowling) as skip.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (transitive)] > command or direct team
skip1900
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > bowls or bowling > play bowls [verb (transitive)] > command or direct team
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1900 Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 2 June 5/2 President and Vice-President skipped rinks pitted against each other.
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