skinning

Meaning of skinning

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable).
    scald and skin the tomatoes
    she skinned the pig and salted the carcass
  2. take money from or swindle (someone).
    I ain't no dummy, and I know when I'm being skinned
  3. (of a wound) form new skin.
    the hole in his skull skinned over
  4. (of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease.
    Kanchelskis would have skinned him
  5. make a cannabis cigarette.
    we had a few beers and then we skinned up

late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn ; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden .

Information about skinning

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of skinning

skin-ning

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • skinning is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

skinning synonyms

Meaning remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable):

peel

Meaning trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges:

pare

Meaning hit and pierce the hull of (a ship) with a missile:

hull

Meaning remove the bark, rind, or husk from:

decorticate

Translation of skinning

Words that rhyme with skinning

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