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skink

noun

  1. type of reptile
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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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.”

  2. To give (something) as a present.