skintとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

A variant of skinned (“having the skin removed; (informal) broke, penniless”, adjective).

Any similarity to skin a flint (“to go to great lengths to gain or save something, particularly money”) (referring to the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its outer layer without shattering it) and its derivative skinflint (“one who is excessively cautious or stingy with money”) is coincidental.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /skɪnt/
• (Scotland) IPA: /skʌnt/
• 韻: -ɪnt

形容詞

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

1. (originally UK, now also Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Having insufficient or no money; broke, penniless. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: (Cockney rhyming slang) boracic, (Cockney rhyming slang) boracic lint, impecunious, poor; see also Thesaurus:impoverished

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:wealthy

   • 1960 December 24, Dera Cooper, “Week-end competition”, in New Statesman: The Week-end Review, volume LX, number 1554, London: New Statesman, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1018, column 3:

     The Room of that there 'Arold Pinter / Ain't one as I'd care to come inter! / 'Is blokes are grotesquer / Than them 'uns of Wesker, / They're balmier, mate, an' they're skinter!

     A submission for a limerick-writing competition.

   • 1989, Iris Murdoch, “Part Six”, in The Message to the Planet, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 484:

     I'm afraid we're skint, we were awfully cheated by Mario who left everything for us to pay.

   • 2000, Tim Bradford, “Dublin, Fair City of Vikings, Buskers and Soaring House Prices (and the Celtic Tiger is rather Unimaginatively Mentioned too): Twenty-four Quietish Hours in Dublin”, in Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? Travels in Irishry, London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 68:

     There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.

   • 2004 March 14, A[drian] A[nthony] Gill, “Life and death on the troubled streets of Haiti”, in The Times‎, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in “Haiti”, in Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, →ISBN, page 107:

     Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and the skintest bit of the poorest country in the western hemisphere is Cité Soleil, a sprawling slum of 250,000 God-and-mammon-forsaken souls on the seashore at the edge of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Animal Smuggling”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

     Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those "errant pupils" who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.

   • 2025 November 14, [Michael] Bowes, judge of the Portsmouth Crown Court, “The King v Joshua Powell: Sentencing Remarks”, in Courts and Tribunals Judiciary [United Kingdom]‎, archived from the original on 26 November 2025, paragraph 19:

     About 2–3 weeks prior to Emma Finch's death you told two of your friends Abi that "he hoped his Nan died soon because he was skint … and … that he thought he was the only one getting money in the will when she died".

派生語

• skintly
• skintness

動詞

skint

1. (chiefly US, regional) simple past and past participle of skin (alternative form of skinned).

参照

Further reading

• poverty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Skint (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• knits, sinkt, snikt, stink, tinks