Noun: skiff
| Singular | skiff |
| Plural | skiffs |
Sample Sentences
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Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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As Hiro is entering their neighborhood, he sees men running down the undulating pontoon bridge that serves as the main street, carrying guns and knives. The local constabulary. More men of the same description emerge from the byways and skiffs and sampans, joining them. [1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385:]
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I went alone into a Shepherd's boat,
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A skiff that to a willow-tree was tied
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Within a rocky cave, its usual home […] [1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:]
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Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:]
Nouns inflected like skiff
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship. See: Middle English Nouns '
skif'.
Verbs referencing "skiff"
English Nouns
skiffle, Catalan Nouns
esquif.