skinnedadj.
/skɪnd/, U.S. /skɪnd/ I. Endowed with or possessing (a) skin, and related senses.
1. That has (a) skin, esp. of a specified kind, as clean-skinned, fox-skinned, loose-skinned, etc.For more established compounds see the first element. See also rough-skinned adj., thick-skinned adj. and thin-skinned adj.
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the world > life > the body > skin > [adjective]
skinned?a1425
skinny?1541
integumental1836
integumentary1846
percutaneous1862
exoskeletal1870
intracutaneous1885
intradermic1888
intradermal1900
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 100 In anoþer ile er folk whilke gase on þaire hend and on þaire fete, as þai ware foure foted bestez..And þei ben alle skynned and fedred.
c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 32 (MED) Kepe the fro fische þat is hard skynned.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxvv Se that he [sc. an ox] haue a brode rybbe and a thicke hyde and to be lose skynned.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Skinned, or cladde with skinne, Pellitus.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 401 The proud Horse, the rough-skinn'd Elephant.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marmote,..a little muddie fish, headed, skinned, and finned, like an Eele.
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H3 Oh here they come. They are delicately skin'd and limb'd.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 87 What Sir Raynard, ye fox-skin'd Chuffe.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 2 These Fish are..skinned like a Mackerel.
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 292 The compressed, roundish, rough-skinned Ostracion.., the Sunfish.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 329 The fruit is of various shapes and sizes,..some smooth skinned.
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 98 The fair-skinned tribe of martial Germans.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 117 That black-eyed, brown-skinned country-flavoured wench.
1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 58 An English official,..having a lean, clean-skinned body.
1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea i. 2 The Echinodermata or prickly-skinned animals.
1943 R. Bradbury in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 90/1 The blue-skinned Jovian..said nothing.
1961 D. Lancaster Emancip. French Indochina 4 The Mois..are a handsome, bronze-skinned people akin to the Dyaks of Borneo.
2002 J. Adams Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX iii. vi. 253 A skinned mesh uses the bones to define its shape; as the bones move, the mesh deforms to match.
2. Of a wound, etc.: covered with skin. Also with over, up. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > process of healing of an injury, etc. > [adjective] > healing over of wound > healed over
skinned1566
incarnated1598
cicatrized1670
1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) iv. lx, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Wash the wound first, with warme Ueneger, contynuing so to doe, vntyll it bee perfectelye skynned and whole.
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxvii. 288 Which like a skinn'd wound doth wrankle inwardly.
1678 J. Browne Compl. Disc. Wounds 264 The Wound being mundified, the Tents were shortned and armed with an Incarnative, and in a short time afterwards it was perfectly skinned up.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. p. xxx The Edges of it in process of time, tuck in, and growing skinn'd and hard, give it the Name of a callous Ulcer.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 175 My Wounds, though not skinned, were healing apace.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xi. ix. 326 A wound imperfectly skinned over.
1911 Lancet 11 Mar. 660/2 These cutaneous lesions..consisted of three little ulcers, two of which are skinned over.
3. Coated with a layer of something; covered or glazed over. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective]
skinned1613
coated1768
multi-coated1962
1613 T. Adams White Deuil 1 A Deuil he was, blacke within and full of ranckour, but white without, and skinned ouer with hypocrisie.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 145 When the earth grows discolour'd and skin'd over.
1789 T. Howel Jrnl. Passage from India 90 I..saw, for the first time in many years, a pool of water skinned over with ice.
1837 W. Wordsworth Musings near Aquapendente 193 From pavement skinned with moss.
a1979 B. D'J. Pancake Stories (1983) 50 Sally's plate lay skinned with beansoup in the sink.
2003 National Post (Canada) 20 Feb. al5/1 Hers is not a storefront, but is located on the third floor of a bank skinned with green glass.
II. Deprived of skin, and related senses.
4.
a. Stripped of skin; having had the skin removed.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin
discoriate1483
flayed1605
unskinned1607
skin-peeled1616
unhideda1658
skinned1673
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 404 Their [sc. frogs'] flesh shows white and lovely as they lie in the markets skin'd and ready prepared.
1764 J. Grieve tr. S. P. Krasheninnikov Hist. Kamtschatka ii. vii. 113 The skinned body of the sable is laid upon dry sticks, which they afterwards light.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. viii. 211 The boy, whose appearance, [was] not much dissimilar to that of a skinned rabbit in a livery.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. June 131 Birds and their eggs, skinned animals, and insects.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 243 If a simple sweet for young children..is desired, try what Chinese cooks delight to offer as Engleesh Strawberry Mash—namely, skinned bananas cut up and mashed with strawberry jam.
1972 J. Rossiter Rope for Gen. Dietz v. 61 She gave me the skinned fruit... With Cointreau poured on, mine tasted out of this world.
1987 R. Thom Buying from N.Z.: Food & Drink 7/2 Cuts of boneless, skinned and seamed venison which is ready for instant cooking.
1996 W. Gibson Idoru xxix. 203 The blood in his sock had turned out to be his own, from a skinned patch on his left shin.
b. Of land.
(a) U.S. That has been stripped of trees.
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1883 Mass. Ploughman 7 July 1/7 The consequence is, withered homesteads, skinned forests and unclean streams, and scorching summers, parching the country into barrenness.
1907 N.Y. Evening Post 18 July 6 Lands in the watershed of the Mohawk range cost a dollar an acre for ‘skinned’ wood-lots.
1938 San Antonio (Texas) Light 19 Feb. 11/5 Now from the skinned land the only valuable part of the farms muddies the once crystal-clear rivers on their way to the sea.
1990 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 23 Feb. c6 What I see are ever-more clear-cuts and bigger patches of skinned land.
(b) From which the turf has been removed. Cf. skin v. 2e.
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1917 Washington Post 25 Mar. (Sporting section) 2/2 It takes a rattling good horse to gallop a mile over an American skinned track in 1:38.
1962 N.Y. Times 16 Apr. 4/3 The crofters there were given grants to put..lime on hundreds of acres of ‘skinned land’ from which peat had been removed.
1988 R. A. Dodgshon in H. H. Birks Cultural Landscape 146 The large area of ‘skinned’ land or gearraidh in the Western Isles confirms that there, too, the cutting of turf was widespread.
5. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). Beaten, bested, overcome completely; esp. in to have a person or thing skinned (to death). Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [adjective]
cravena1225
matec1225
to yield oneself creanta1250
confounded1362
checkmate?c1370
convictc1430
superatec1460
beaten1550
frustrate1588
convicteda1616
skinned1897
1897 G. Ade Pink Marsh 33 When it come to tossin' lang'age ol' Gawge sutny had me skinned.
1899 W. J. Kountz Billy Baxter's Lett. 10 Why, an asphalt street has a sylvan dell skinned to death.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iii. 56 I guess you've got us skinned on the animal and vegetation question.
1908 ‘Yeslah’ Tenderfoot S. Calif. ii. 22 When it rains in California, it's got all the rest of the country skinned to death.
1927 E. Wallace Feathered Serpent iv. 47 I came down here to make a few inquiries... I've got these reporter guys skinned to death!
1933 Amer. Mercury May 74/2 Split Nickel Cash Market's got you skinned on that deal forty ways from Sunday.
6. colloquial. = skint adj. Also occasionally with out. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 187 A lad who has lost all his taws is ‘skinn'd’. And a man who loses all his money at the races is also ‘skinn'd’, or ‘stoney’, or ‘stoney-broke’.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 107/1 Skinned out, broke; without funds.
1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades i. xii. 93 Why's he left me skinned in hopeless destitution?
1981 A. Lockwood Passionate Pilgrims iii. xv. 302 Another young Briton reached his homeland in 1884 ‘completely skinned’, in his own words, and had to telegraph his brother-in-law for money to reach home.
2003 M. Hudson tr. L.-F. Celine Fable for Another Time 10 They've taken everything! From one end to the other, by hook or by crook. The proof: I'm skint and skinned!
Phrases
colloquial (originally U.S.) to keep one's eyes skinned and variants: to keep a sharp lookout, watch carefully for. Cf. to keep one's eyes peeled at peeled adj. 1b, to skin one's eyes at skin v. Phrases 3.
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1828 A. Wetmore Diary 25 June, in Public Documents U.S. Senate (22nd Congress, 1st Sess.) (1832) No. 90. 36 ‘Keep your eyes skinned now,’ said the old trapper. We are now entering upon the most dangerous section of the trace.
1887 J. Farrell How he Died 22 The reverend josser..kept his eye skinned.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 125 A sack o' taters, or a sieve o' cherries sometimes goes awalkin' if yer don't keep yer eyes skinned.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps 67 I told him to keep his eyes skinned, and make note of any strange figures.
1947 T. H. White Mistress Masham's Repose 45 Maria went round the green, with her eyes skinned, but without making any discoveries.
1996 Prospect Mar. 9/2 Eyes are kept skinned for the lookalike but worthless Chinese truffle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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