skink

¹

[ skingk ]

noun

1. any of numerous lizards of the family Scincidae, common in many regions of the Old and New World, typically having flat, smooth, overlapping scales and comprising terrestrial, arboreal, and fossorial species.

skink

²

[ skingk ]

verb (used with object)

, Scot. Dialect.

1. to serve (a beverage).

skink

/ skɪŋk /

noun

1. any lizard of the family Scincidae, commonest in tropical Africa and Asia, having reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with smooth scales scincoid

Word History and Origins

Origin of skink¹

1580–90; < Latin scincus < Greek skínkos lizard

Origin of skink²

1350–1400; Middle English skynken < Middle Dutch schenken, schinken; cognate with Old English scencan, German schenken

Word History and Origins

Origin of skink¹

C16: from Latin scincus a lizard, from Greek skinkos

Example Sentences

In the North, the most common hosts were mice, while in the South, the ticks selectively attached to skinks, Ginsberg says.

From Science News

It will take more research to learn how climate change will affect skink populations and how warming might change tick behavior, he says.

From Science News

But if Hiaasen were none of those things, if all he had ever done was to create the character of Skink, that would be enough.

From The Daily Beast

True, the story contains no sex scenes and no swearing, and its protagonists, other than Skink, are two plucky teenagers.

From The Daily Beast

And with Skink as his guide, Richard discovers the pleasures of the unplugged life.

From The Daily Beast

To judge from specimens available, E. dugesi probably is the most abundant and widespread species of skink in the state.

From Project Gutenberg

Scincoid, sing′koid, n. one of a family of saurian reptiles, the typical genus of which is the Scin′cus or skink.

From Project Gutenberg

To skink wine before me if thee I permit, Thou on the stone bench with the servants shalt sit.

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She took in her fair hand the white silver can, To skink mead before the young knight she began.

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I had to make a dry-camp and my doughnuts is smashed up and the jelly glass broke but I never cried when a skink came.

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