skink

Meanings

Plural: skinks

Noun

alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
A shin of beef.
A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
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.
A drink.

Verb

To serve (a drink).
To give (something) as a present.

Origin / Etymology

Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).
The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ġesċincio, ġesċinco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).

Synonyms

scincid, scincid lizard

Scrabble Score: 13

skink is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
skink is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skink is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

skink is a valid Words With Friends word