SKINCH

  

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SKINCH

Definition: SKINCH

SKINCH

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SKINCH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Note: Skinch \Skinch\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Skinched; present participle verb or noun Skinching.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SKINCH

English words defined with "SKINCH": Skinched, Skinching. (references)

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Rhyming with "SKINCH"

Words ending with "inch": Chinch, finch, Linch. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SKINCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: chinks.

Words within the letters "c-h-i-k-n-s"

-1 letter: chink, chins, hicks, knish, nicks, snick.

-2 letters: chin, chis, hick, hins, hisn, ichs, inch, inks, khis, kins, nick, shin, sick, sinh, sink, skin.

-3 letters: chi, cis, hic, hin, his, ich, ick, ink, ins, khi, kin, sic, sin, ski.

-4 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-k-n-s"
 

+2 letters: chewinks, chickens, chinooks, crankish, kachinas, kitchens, shocking, shucking, thickens.

 

+3 letters: antishock, chinkiest, chipmunks, chunkiest, handpicks, icekhanas, katchinas, munchkins, mutchkins, pachinkos, pinchecks, shackling, shuckings, sketching, thickness.

 

+4 letters: checkreins, cheekiness, chinkapins, cockneyish, hijackings, hopsacking, jinricksha, mackintosh, nightstick, physicking, pickthanks, pinchbecks, rainchecks, shankpiece, shockingly, shylocking, thickeners.

 

+5 letters: backlashing, backwashing, checkpoints, chickenshit, cornhusking, hopsackings, huckstering, jinrickshas, kinesthetic, nightsticks, puckishness, resketching, shankpieces, shellacking, sickishness, sketchiness, spinachlike, stickhandle, thickenings, thicknesses, unshackling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SKINCH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4B 49 4E 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-    ..    -.    -.-.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004B 0049 004E 0043 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534543483742

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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