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Skank vs Skink - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between skink and skank

is that skink is a lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed while skank is any substance that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

As verbs the difference between skink and skank

is that skink is to serve (a drink while skank is to dance the skank.

skank

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • Any substance that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant.

    • Etymology 2

    . Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
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    Etymology 3

    Jamaican origin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dance performed to ska.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dance the skank
    • Come on, skank along, it's the skanking song.

    Etymology 4

    Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of cheating a person.
    • That's not a good deal; it's a skank .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheat, especially a friend.
    • ''He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked .
    Derived terms
    * skanker * skanky Jamaican English ----

    skink

    English

    (wikipedia skink)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) to serve (a drink)
  • * Shirley
    • Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) drink
  • (obsolete) pottage
    • (Francis Bacon)
    Derived terms
    * Cullen skink (Webster 1913)

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