sken

English

Etymology

Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skɛn/

Verb

sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)

  1. (Northern English) to squint
    • 1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:
      She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.
    • 1861, Edwin Waugh, "The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle":
      He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.
  2. (Northern English) to glance

References
  1. “sken”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Old Saxon

Verb

skēn

  1. 1st and 3rd person past indicative form of skinan

Swedish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɧeːn/
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Noun

sken n

  1. an appearance; guise
    skenet bedrar
    the appearance may fool you
  2. a (strong) light
    månens matta sken
    the dim light of the moon
  3. bolting

Declension
Declension of sken 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sken skenet sken skenen
Genitive skens skenets skens skenens

Verb

sken

  1. past tense of skina.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse skin, from skína, whence skiin.

Noun

sken n

  1. drought

Derived terms
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