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skinless, a.|ˈskɪnlɪs|
Forms: 5 skin-, skynles, 6 skinne-, 6–7 skinlesse, 8– skinless.
[f. skin n. + -less.]
Destitute or deprived of skin; having only a very thin skin; spec. of sausages and similar meats.
c1340Hampole Med. Pass. in Horstman (1895) I. 98 Þe fleisch þere þe cros sittith is skinles & ouer-runne wiþ blood⁓rowis. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. ix, The wulf ranne aweye skynles. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 59 The head woulde bee very deformed if it were skinnelesse, where it is couered with haire. 1600Hosp. Incurable Fooles A iv, Those skinlesse Snailes that lift vp their hornes for nothing. 1611Cotgr., Fricandeaux, short, skinlesse, and daintie puddings. 1706London & Wise Retir'd Gard. I. vii. 28 The..skinless Pear is a kind of Russelet in Shape and Taste. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 310/1 What is it that's born Skinless, flies Wingless, and goes roaring to Death? 1850Kingsley A. Locke xxi, He was looking..at the skinless cast on the chimney-piece. Ibid., He looked round again at the skinless man. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 78 He [the raven] pranced about on his [the wolf's] scraggy skinless carcase. 1954Food Manufacture 1 Nov. p. xi (Advt.), Visking food and sausage casings are..available through Viskase Limited... Visking Nojax for skinless sausages. 1959E. H. Clements High Tension vi. 119 ‘He'd bring..cevabcici—’... ‘Sausages, you mean.’ ‘Oh yes... Special skinless ones..from a shop in Soho.’ 1968R. Clapperton No News on Monday v. 52, I helped myself to a couple of skinless sausages from the refrigerator. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xvii. 170 He..had..eaten a tin of skinless frankfurters with a purée of mashed yam.
fig.1859Sat. Rev. 19 Mar. 331/2 There was nothing in it to make the most skinless man in existence wince.
Hence ˈskinlessly adv.
1859Boyd Recreat. Country Parson (1862) 86 Not only are they themselves skinlessly sensitive [etc.]. |