Skinker vs Kinker - What's the difference?
skinker | kinker |
A performer in a circus.
* 2006 , Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, pages 36-37:
As nouns the difference between skinker and kinker
is that skinker is one who serves liquor; a tapster while kinker is a performer in a circus.kinker
English
Noun
(en noun)- "So, what's the vernacular then?" I say finally. ¶ "They're called kinkers," says Camel..."don't you go calling them 'kinkers' to their faces, neither." ¶ "What do I call them?" ¶ "Performers...There's them and there's us, and you're us," says Camel.