skinkers

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Kicking up a skinker: why trainers need to be more pushy Clive Shepherd 2005

If you're already doing this and still find you're not getting noticed, you can escalate your attack significantly by employing desktop alerts, or 'skinkers'.

Archive 2005-11-01 Clive Shepherd 2005

By my soul, Mr. Fairbird, he is the prince of skinkers, and the father of the free trade — not a stingy hypocritical devil like old

Redgauntlet 2008

Falstaff is a moocher, a highwayman, a heavy drinker, and grossly overweight; Hal is too wealthy to need to beg or steal, and he is in fighting trim, even if he does sometimes tipple with Falstaff and the under-skinkers or tapsters who inhabit the tavern.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The Nationalist party is strictly a la machine, and Witherspoon is one of the world's slimiest skinkers.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

And with the skinkers went and handed round one cup Of wine, whilst other two were proffered by his eyne.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

A little farther off, some old-fashioned skinkers and drawers, all with portentously red noses, were spreading a banquet on the leaf-strewn earth; while a horned and long-tailed gentleman (in whom I recognized the fiendish musician erst seen by Tam O'Shanter) tuned his fiddle, and summoned the whole motley rout to a dance, before partaking of the festal cheer.

The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

By my soul, Mr. Fairbird, he is the prince of skinkers, and the father of the free trade -- not a stingy hypocritical devil like old Turnpenny

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

And they will as well presume to say that the History of Guarino Mezquino and of the quest of the Holy San Greal be lies; and that for the love between Sir Tristram and La Bella Ysoude, and between Queen Guenevor and Sir Lancelor Dulake, we have no sufficient authority; and yet there be certain persons alive which almost remember that they have seen the Lady Queintanonina, who was one of the best skinkers of wine that ever Great Britain had; and this is so certain, as I remember that one of my grandmothers of my father’s side was wont to say unto me, when she saw my matron, with a long and reverend kerchief or veil, “My boy, that woman resembles very much Lady Queintanonina.

The Fourth Book. XXII. Wherein the Discreet Discourse That Passed between Sancho Panza and His Lord Don Quixote Is Expressed 1909