Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Having insufficient or no money; broke, penniless.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysimple past and past participle of skin (alternative form of skinned).
A variant of skinned (“having the skin removed; (informal) broke, penniless”, adjective). Any similarity to skin a flint (“to go to great lengths to gain or save something, particularly money”) (referring to the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its outer layer without shattering it) and its derivative skinflint (“one who is excessively cautious or stingy with money”) is coincidental.
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