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Skint vs Penniless - What's the difference?

skint | penniless |

As adjectives the difference between skint and penniless

is that skint is penniless, poor, impecunious, broke while penniless is not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.

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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    * (l)

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    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

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    • penniless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.
  • * 1889 , (Horatio Alger), Driven From Home , ch. 10:
    • A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless , she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}

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