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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?p, IPA^(key): /sk?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjan?, *skupan? (“to scoff, mock”), perhaps related to *skeuban? (“to drive, push”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Middle Swedish skuppa (“to skip”).

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

   She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
   • So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   The rock will skip across the pond.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

   I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).

   My heart will skip a beat.

   I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

6. To place an item in a skip.
7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

   Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

8. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
   • 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?

     I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

     She really want to skip town

     Get back off me, beast off me

     Get back you flea-infested mongrel

9. To leap lightly over.

   to skip the rope

10. To jump rope.

    The girls were skipping in the playground.

11. (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

Synonyms

• (informal, not to attend): (US) play hookie

Translations

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

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4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
   • 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)

     Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.

5. (radio) skywave propagation

Derived terms

• skipping rope

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”).

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
4. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
6. A beehive.

Synonyms

• (open-topped rubbish bin): dumpster (Canada, US)

Translations

Etymology 3

Late Middle English skillper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”), related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
2. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
3. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
4. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
5. (Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Translations

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

Alternative forms

• skippy

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   • 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,

     Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

     Barber: She is Australian.

     Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.

Translations

See also

• limey
• wog

Etymology 5

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (college slang) A college servant.

Related terms

• gyp (Cambridge University)
• scout (Oxford University)

References

Anagrams

• KPIs, kips

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch schip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)

1. ship

Derived terms

• oorlogskip
• seilskip
• stoomskip
• vliegdekskip
• vragskip

Descendants

• ? Northern Ndebele: isikepe
• ? Shona: chikepe
• ? Sotho: sekepe
• ? Tsonga: xikepe
• ? Xhosa: isikhephe
• ? Zulu: isikebhe

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• kips
• spik

Gothic

Romanization

skip

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sc??p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)

1. ship, boat

Declension

Synonyms

• (ship, boat): bátur m, gnoð f, kafs hestur m

Derived terms

• flaggskip
• geimskip

Anagrams

• spik

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Cognate with Danish skib, Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic ???????????????? (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa or skipene)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

References

• “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?. Akin to English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?p/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa)

1. a ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

For other terms please refer to skip (Bokmål) for the time being.

References

• “skip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic ???????????????? (skip).

Noun

skip n (genitive skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

• skipari

Descendants

References

• skip in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?, whence also Old English s?ip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.

Noun

skip n

1. ship

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: schip, schep
  • German Low German: Schipp, Schepp

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?p/

Noun

skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)

1. ship
2. shipload
3. nave (of a church)

Further reading

• “skip (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophone: book (accents without the foot–?strut split)

Etymology 1

From Middle English buc, bucke, bukke, from Old English buc, bucc, bucca (“he-goat, stag”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“buck”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?u?- (“ram”).Cognate with German Bock, Norwegian bukk, West Frisian bok (“he-goat”); also Albanian buzë, Old Armenian ???? (buc, “sucking lamb”), Persian ??? (boz, “goat”), Sanskrit ????? (bukka).

Sense 8 from American English, an abbreviation of buckskin as a unit of trade among Indians and Europeans in frontier days (attested from 1748).

Senses 10 and 11 from American English, possibly originating from the game poker, where a knife (typically with a hilt made from a stag horn) was used as a place-marker to signify whose turn it was to deal. The place-marker was commonly referred to as a buck hence the term ("pass the buck") used in poker, eventually a Silver dollar was used in place of a knife leading to a dollar to be referred to as a buck.

Senses 15 & 16 are from Dutch bok (“sawhorse”), a shortened form of zaagbok (“sawbuck”).

Noun

buck (plural bucks)

1. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
2. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
3. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
4. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
   • 1808, Alexander Chalmers (editor), The Connoisseur, The British Essayists, Volume 32, page 93,

     This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.

   • 1825, Constantine Henry Phipps, I Zingari, The English in Italy, Volume II, page 153,

     The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.

5. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
   • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:

     She got so she'd rather have a buck nigger than me!
6. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
7. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
8. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
9. (US, slang) One hundred.

10. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
11. (US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.

12. (Britain, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
13. (finance) One million dollars.
14. (informal) A euro.
15. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
16. a leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting
17. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See Street Rodder "Making a Wood Buck".
18. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance
19. Synonym of mule (type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.)

Synonyms

• (male deer): stag
• (male goat): billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat
• (male ferret): hob, hob-ferret
• (ram): ram, tup
• (slang: dollar): bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo
• (item that indicates dealer in poker): button, dealer button

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• doe, doeling, ewe, gill, jill, nanny, nanny-goat, she-goat

Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

1. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German bucken (“to bend”) or Middle Dutch bucken, bocken (“to bend”), intensive forms of Old Saxon b?gan and Old Dutch *b?gan (“to bend, bow”), both from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *b?gan? (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Influenced in some senses by buck “male goat” (see above).

Compare bow and elbow.

Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

1. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
2. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
   • 1849, Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy, William Carron, Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121,

     At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.

3. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
   • W. E. Norris

     The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.

4. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
5. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

   The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.

6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

   The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.

7. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

   The plane bucked a strong headwind.

   Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.

   John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.

8. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
9. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
10. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

See beech.

Noun

buck (plural bucks)

1. (Scotland) The beech tree.

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Derived terms

• buckwheat, buckmast, buck-mast

Etymology 4

From Middle English bouken (“steep in lye”), ultimately related to the root of beech. Cognate with Middle High German büchen, Swedish byka, Danish byge and Low German b?ken.

Noun

buck

1. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
   • 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horseman and Complete Farrier, London: Simon Miller, Chapter 25 “Maunginess in the Main,” p. 236,^[1]

     […] when you find the scurf to fall off, wash the Neck and other parts with Buck Lye made blood warm.

2. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 3,^[2]

     Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!

Derived terms

• buck-basket

Verb

buck (third-person singular simple present bucks, present participle bucking, simple past and past participle bucked)

2. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
3. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
4. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
   • 1991, Joan Day, R. F. Tylecote, The industrial revolution in metals (page 89)

     This [ore mixture] was bucked or cobbed down to a 'peasy' size (i.e. the size of a pea) or less, using a flat-bottomed bucking hammer, and then riddled into coarse peasy and finer (sand-sized) 'smitham' grades.

References