skip

English Online Dictionary. What means skip‎? What does skip mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: skĭp, IPA^(key): /skɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.

2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

8. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
9. To leap lightly over.

10. To jump rope.

11. To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
12. (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
13. (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

    Antonym: stack

Synonyms

• (informal, not to attend): (US) play hooky

Translations

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
   1. (video games) 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.
3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
5. (radio) skywave propagation
6. (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).

Noun

skip (plural skips)

2. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.

   Synonym: dumpster (chiefly North America)

4. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
6. (steelmaking) A skip car.
8. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
10. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
12. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
14. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

    Synonym: skep

    Hypernyms: beehive, hive

Derived terms

• mini skip
• skip hoist
• skip lorry
• skip-raiding

Translations

Verb

skip (third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

1. (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

Etymology 3

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
   1. (sometimes as a term of address) The captain of a sports team.
2. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
3. (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
4. (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Translations

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

Alternative forms

• skippy

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   • 2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest,

     Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

     Barber: She is Australian.

     Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.

Translations

See also

• limey
• wog

Etymology 5

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.

Related terms

• gyp (Cambridge University)
• scout (Oxford University)

Etymology 6

Clipping of skip-level manager.

Noun

skip (plural skips)

1. (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.

   Synonym: grandboss

References

Anagrams

• Kips, PIKs, kips, KPIs, spik, KIPS

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch schip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skəp/

Noun

skip (plural skepe, diminutive skippie or skepie)

1. ship

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Northern Ndebele: isikepe
• → Shona: chikepe
• → Sotho: sekepe
• → Tsonga: xikepe
• → Xhosa: isikhephe
• → Zulu: isikebhe

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, plural skip)

1. ship
2. (architecture) nave (of a church)

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• kips
• spik

French

Pronunciation

Noun

skip m (plural skips)

1. (mining) skip

Noun

skip m or f (plural skips)

1. (curling) skip

Further reading

• “skip”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gothic

Romanization

skip

1. romanization of 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [scɪːp]
• Rhymes: -ɪːp

Noun

skip n (genitive singular skips, nominative plural skip)

1. ship, boat

   Synonyms: bátur m, gnoð f, kafs hestur m

Declension

Derived terms

• flaggskip
• geimskip
• sjóræningjaskip

Anagrams

• spik

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Cognate with Swedish skepp, Icelandic skip, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip), German Schiff, Dutch schip, and English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa or skipene)

1. ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

References

• “skip” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “skip” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą. Akin to English ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːp/

Noun

skip n (definite singular skipet, indefinite plural skip, definite plural skipa)

1. ship

Synonyms

• båt

Derived terms

For other terms please refer to skip (Bokmål) for the time being.

References

• “skip” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English scip (English ship), Old Saxon skip, Old High German skif, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀 (skip).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skip/

Noun

skip n (genitive skips, plural skip)

1. ship

Declension

Derived terms

• skipari

Descendants

• Icelandic: skip
• Faroese: skip
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skip
• Old Swedish: skip
  • Swedish: skepp
• Old Danish: skip
  • Danish: skib
    • Norwegian Bokmål: skip
  • Scanian: śevv
• → Irish: scib
• → Scottish Gaelic: sgioba

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “skip”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą, whence also Old English sċip, Old Frisian skip, Old High German skif, Old Norse skip.

Noun

skip n

1. ship

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: schip, schep
  • German Low German: Schipp, Schepp

Russenorsk

Alternative forms

• sjib

Etymology

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk skip.

Noun

skip

1. ship

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian skip, from Proto-West Germanic *skip, from Proto-Germanic *skipą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪp/

Noun

skip n (plural skippen, diminutive skipke)

1. ship
2. shipload
3. nave (of a church)

Further reading

• “skip (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011