Definitions
A smooth-scaled lizard, often with small limbs.
Word origin
Possibly from Middle Low German schink, schinke, schenke (“leg; shank; shin bone; ham”), from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō (“shank; thigh; that which is bent”), from Proto-Germanic *skinkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (“to limp; to be crooked, slant”).
Used in a sentence
“lean sirloin, skink and pot-roast”
“For there are in the Flesh , Bones , Skinnes , organs , and the severall limbes of the living body : such spirits as are in the Flesh , Bone , and Skinke , beeing separated”
“Cullen skink”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Smooth lizard”5 letters
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