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Skint vs Skift - What's the difference?

skint | skift |

As an adjective skint

is (slang|british|australian) penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.

As a noun skift is

a light dusting of snow.

skint

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (slang, British, Australian) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.

    • Usage notes

    * Cockney rhyming slang for skint' is boracic lint, or just ' boracic .

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    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)

    • skift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light dusting of snow.
  • * 2010 , Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
    • A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.
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