skinch
/skɪn(t)ʃ/(also skinge)
verb
[no object] To be frugal, to economize; = scrimp.
exclamation
English regional ( northern ). In children's games: a term used to call for a truce or claim temporary immunity from capture, etc.
Origin
Early 19th century (in an earlier sense). Origin unknown.
- subjector
- subject picture
- subjectship
- subject superior
- subjoin
- subjoinder
- sub judice
- subjugal
- subjugate
- subjugation
- subjugator
- subjunct
- subjunction
- subjunctive
- subjunctive-equivalent
- subjunctively
- subjunctive proposition
- subjunctive vowel
- subjunctivity
- subkind
- subkingdom
- sublacustrine
- sublanguage
- sublapsarian
- sublapsarianism