skint
part of speech
adjective (skint — informal, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand)
meaning for a pupil
1) (slang, UK) Having no money at all; broke. tree →
2) In old country speech, skint can mean climbed or scrambled quickly up something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand talk, people say they are skint near the end of the week or month. It is casual, not rude. In maths with real speech, «I'm skint» means the money left is £0 (or almost). Phrases: completely skint, flat broke.
examples
- I can't come to the cinema, I'm skint. tree →
- (UK) Lend us a quid, I'm skint till Friday. tree →
- After buying the bike, he was totally skint. tree →
- We're a bit skint this week, so we'll eat at home. tree →
- Skint again? You spent all your pocket money on sweets! tree →
- She was skint, so she walked instead of taking the bus. tree →
- Brer Rabbit he skint up de chimbly--dat's w'at turnt de pot er greens over. tree →
note
Informal: use broke or «have no money» in formal writing; the US mostly says broke. Comes from skinned. In a money problem, someone skint has nothing left to spend.
In the corpora
- In Nottingham, Jolene's mates all have the new trainers, and her family is skint (has no spare money).
- "Skint" is everyday British slang for having very little money.
Trees and pragmatics
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