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Word entry · 4 letters

skin

Best crossword clue

"Body covering"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /skɪn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted iknsStarts with SEnds with N4 cluesVery common crossword word
1S2K3I4N

Definitions

  1. remove the skin from

Word origin

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide.

Used in a sentence

  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  • Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
  • In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues

01Body covering4 letters
02Body's outer covering4 letters
03Body's outer layer4 letters
04Outer body layer4 letters

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