skinking

American  

[sking-king] / ˈskɪŋ kɪŋ /

adjective

Scot.

1. (of liquor, soup, etc.) watery; diluted or thin.

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Etymology

Origin of skinking

First recorded in 1575–85; skink ² + -ing ²

Example Sentences

That feat does not hinder them from their skinking, and it blunts not their intelligence thereat.

From The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes by Eliot, Charles William

You might challenge at skinking that great Danish knight who was with us under Orleans, Sir Andrew Haggard was his name, and his bearings were .

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

I must eat alone; a very pernicious thing for a person of my habit of body, content myself with a pint of skinking claret, and meditate the discourse.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

I personally examined the soup, and found it to be "nae skinking ware that jaups in luggies."

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner