skin – English noun declension

English noun forms of skin

Noun: skin
Singularskin
Pluralskins

Sample Sentences

  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  • Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers. [2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:]
  • you know good leather, you know the best way to tan the hides and where to find the best skins [2011, Iris Gower, The Wild Seed, Transworld:]
  • In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.
  • Do you eat the skin on custard?
  • You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
  • My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
  • However, the misconception regarding skin hitboxes was created by a subset of players who believed that wearing thinner skins enhanced their gameplay. [2024 March 16, Rishabh Sabarwal, “Fortnite hitboxes: Do skins have a competitive advantage?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2024:]
  • Pass me a skin, mate.
  • By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts. [2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:]
  • The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back. [1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361:]
  • Let me see a bit of skin.
  • the Bacchic train,
  • Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
  • That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes [1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion:]
  • The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar [(Can we date this quote?), “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • He was a decent old skin.
  • PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins” [2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy):]
  • […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin. [1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide.
2. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”). See: Middle English Nouns 'skyn', Old English Nouns 'scinn', Old Norse Nouns 'skinn', Latin Nouns 'scindō'.

Verbs referencing "skin"

Dutch Nouns skin, English Nouns skinship, Finnish Nouns skini, Russian Nouns скин.