skinner

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”).

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skinner (plural skinners)

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. (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
6. (gambling, slang) An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner.

• mule skinner

• (gambling slang): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

skinner c

1. indefinite plural of skinne

skinner

1. present of skinne

skinner m or f

1. indefinite plural of skinne

skinner

1. present of skinne