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Meaning of skink | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/skɪŋk/

Definitions

  1. A shin of beef.
    Northern-England, Scotland
  2. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
  3. A drink.
    obsolete
  4. A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
    Scotland, obsolete
  5. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
    Scotland, broadly

Equivalents

العربية سقنقور
Deutsch Skink
Español escinco eslizón
Français scinque
עברית חומט חמט
Bahasa Indonesia kadal
Italiano scinco
日本語 スキンク 蜥蜴
한국어 스킨크
Nederlands skink
Polski scynk
Português escíncido
Русский сцинк

Examples

“lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast”
“For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated”
“Cullen skink”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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