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Definition of Skinking
1. skink [v] - See also: skink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinking
Literary usage of Skinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Furth in Field: A Volume of Essays on the Life, Language and Literature of by James Logie Robertson, James Thomson, Robert Burns (1894)
"skinking ware " is not skink; it is a Scottish rustic's name for some unmentionable
French or Italian cat-lap. Skink itself was a good old Scottish dish, ..."
2. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1896)
"Creech was not the man to boggle at a bargain of the kind, and the new edition,
printed from a corrected copy of the' skinking' impression, appeared in the ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"That feat does not hinder them from their skinking, and it blunts not their
intelligence thereat. Good are the warriors that are there! ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"... as the " Stinking Edition," from the misprint of "stinking" for " skinking"
in the ' Address to a Haggis,' a tall, handsome copy, London, 1787, 3/. 10*. ..."
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