Skank vs Lizard - What's the difference?
skank | lizard |
(pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
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To cheat, especially a friend.
Any reptile of the order Squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
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(colloquial) An unctuous person.
(colloquial) A coward.
As nouns the difference between skank and lizard
is that skank is a gift, a donation while lizard is any reptile of the order squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.As a verb skank
is .skank
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. Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.Noun
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Jamaican originEtymology 4
Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).Verb
(en verb)- ''He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked .
Derived terms
* skanker * skanky Jamaican English ----lizard
English
(wikipedia lizard)Noun
(en noun)- Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown