skinner
nomattesté dans les dialogues
- Australie
Someone who skins animals.
nom
- 1
Someone who skins animals.
- 2
A hunting knife used for skinning animal carcasses.
- 3
A machine used for removing the skin from animal carcasses.
- 4
One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
- 5
argotA child sexual abuser.
- 6
argotAn instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.
Étymologie
From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin + -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari (“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare (“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner (“skinner”).
Formes
- pluriel
- skinners