different between skint vs boracic

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)(usually postpositive) (Brit, slang) without money. variant of skinned, past participle of skin.

Word origin and history for skint: adj. "broke, out of money," 1925, slang variant of skinned, past participle of skin (v.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

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

1. (slang, Britain, Australia) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
2. (slang) skinned

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

• skintness

Translations

Anagrams

• knits, sinkt, snikt, stink, tinks

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

skint

1. past participle of skinne

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin borax (genitive boracis), itself via Arabic ???????? (bawraq), from Persian ????? (b?ra).

Adjective

boracic (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or impregnated with borax.
2. (dated, inorganic chemistry) Synonym of boric.

Derived terms

• boracic acid
• boracic lint
• boracite

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortened from boracic lint (“skint”).

Alternative forms

• brassic

Adjective

boracic (comparative more boracic, superlative most boracic)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) penniless

Synonyms

• broke
• skint (British)
• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• braccio