skink
To serveTo serve (a drink).
» Blue-tongued skinks are also bred in captivity and sold as house pets.
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2 senses(Scotland, ambitransitive)To serve (a drink).
(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete, transitive)To give (something) as a present.
Examples
1 sentencesBlue-tongued skinks are also bred in captivity and sold as house pets.
Origin
From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenkeFrom Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.
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Forms
skinks, skinking, skinked, skinkedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.