Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips. · The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. · A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory. · A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
To move by hopping on alternate feet. · To leap about lightly. · To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. · To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.
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