sken

Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.[1]

• IPA^(key): /skɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)

1. (Northern English) to squint
   • 1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:

     She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.

   • 1861, Edwin Waugh, The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle:

     He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.

2. (Northern English) to glance

• kens, neks, snek

skēn

1. first/third-person past indicative of skinan

Inherited from Old Swedish sken, skin, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną. Cognate of German Schein, English shine.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɧeːn/

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sken n

1. a light, a glow

   månens matta sken

   the dim light of the moon

2. an appearance; guise

   försöka ge sken av något

   try to give the impression of something

   skenet bedrar

   appearances are deceptive

• skina

Deverbal from skena.

sken n

1. bolting

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sken

1. past indicative of skina

• sken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• sken in Svensk ordbok.
• sken in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)