Definitions
Examples
“The word skint would be an accurate description of my fiscal situation.”
“By the way, if you're wondering about the British-ism in the first sentence, "skint" is slang for "broke," as in: got no money.”
“Redknapp also observed that Portsmouth had spent "decent money" last summer, well after his departure, despite people saying that they were "skint".”
“The mother-of-four has struggled financially in recent months and said she was "skint".”
“It was claimed that after fleeing the property, Kilcullen drunkenly telephoned police and said he had carried out the attack because he was "skint".”
“He added: "I'm skint, which is entirely my own fault.”
“UK is 'skint' says Marks & Spencer's Sir Stuart Rose”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“Pasty-faced, podgy and skint, all you have to look forward to is a month of evenings contemplating the wreckage of your house, the nullity of your bank balance and the whistling of the icy winds down your Santa-free chimney.”
The Guardian: How do I get… someone to take me on holiday in January
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘skint’.
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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travesty, twilit, amort, fussy, sentinel, balustrade, lumbago, trice, gable, unwonted, impunity, perfunctory and 104 more...
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manatee's Words
coagulate, skint, treble, warp and woof, nonplussed, swordfish, arboretum, lemoyne, acme, manatee, asshole, schmuck and 7 more...
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Tweets
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madmouth Shint has it even worse! Apr 16, 2009
bilby An uptight, desperate word that has fallen upon straightened times. May 10, 2008
john "Partway through the making of “Dummy,�? released in 1994, they brought in Mr. Utley, who had been what he calls a “skint�? — which means barely getting by — jazz guitarist."
The New York Times, After a Decade Away, Portishead Floats Back, by Jon Pareles, April 13, 2008 Apr 14, 2008