skint

adjective

ˈskint 

chiefly British

: without money : penniless

However skint I am, I always pay my services bills …

—Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

I was skint by that time. It was a shame. … Still, who needs money when you're looking good?

—Melvin Burgess

Synonyms

• beggared
• beggarly
• broke
• destitute
• dirt-poor
• down-and-out
• famished
• hard up
• impecunious
• impoverished
• indigent
• necessitous
• needful
• needy
• pauperized
• penniless
• penurious
• poor
• poverty-stricken
• threadbare

Examples of skint in a Sentence

an area of London where skint punk rockers would hang out

Word History

Etymology

alteration of skinned, past participle of skin entry 2

First Known Use

circa 1925, in the meaning defined above