skink
noun
- type of reptile
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /skɪŋk/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
- A drink.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
- To serve (a drink).
“Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove, / When he invites the gods to feast with him / On Juno's wedding-day.”
“[W]hile he would spit beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.”
- To give (something) as a present.