skint

The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned

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• IPA^(key): /skɪnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

skint (comparative skinter or more skint, superlative skintest or most skint)

1. (slang, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.

2. (slang) skinned

• Cockney rhyming slang for skint is boracic lint, or just boracic. It is pronounced as brassic.

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

• skintly
• skintness

• knits, sinkt, snikt, stink, tinks

skint

1. past participle of skinne