skin

CEFRA1

/skɪn/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The outer covering of a body; to remove this covering.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

Examples

  • Had it not been for your raincoat, I would have been drenched to the skin.

  • I was drenched to the skin because of the heavy rain.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

  2. The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

  3. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

More examples

In context

  • There is a direct correlation between exposure to sun and skin cancer.

  • Do you eat the skin on custard?

  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).