different between skink vs leglesslizard

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Proto-West Germanic *skink? (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).

The word is cognate with Danish skinke (“ham”), Middle Dutch schenke, schinke (“shin; hough; ham”), Icelandic skinka (“ham”), Norwegian skinke (“ham”), Old English ?es?incio, ?es?inco (“kidney fat”), Old High German skinka, skinko (“shank; shin bone”) (Middle High German schinke (“shank; shin bone; ham”), modern German Schinken (“ham; pork from the hindquarters”)), Old Saxon skinka (“ham”), Old Swedish skinke (modern Swedish skinka (“ham”)).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.

2. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, Historia Vitae et Mortis

     For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated

3. (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

Derived terms

• Cullen skink

Etymology 2

From Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skíngos), ??????? (skínkos).

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

1. A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English skinken, skynken, skenken, from Middle Dutch scinken, scenken, schenken and/or Old Norse skenkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skankijan?. Cognate with German schenken (“to give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”). See also the inherited doublet shink.

Verb

skink (third-person singular simple present skinks, present participle skinking, simple past and past participle skinked)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
   • 1640, James Shirley, The Imposture

     Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.

2. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give as a present.

Noun

skink (plural skinks)

1. (obsolete) A drink.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• kinks

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English skink, from Middle French scinc, from Latin scincus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (skíngos), ??????? (skínkos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??k/
• Hyphenation: skink
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

skink m (plural skinken, diminutive skinkje n)

1. A skink, any lizard of the family Scincidae