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skinka.

ham (a cured leg of a swine, or other similar cured pork)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Íslenska language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsciŋ̊ka]
  1. ham (a cured leg of a swine, or other similar cured pork)

    countable · feminine · uncountable
  2. a Caucasian girl that has an abnormal amount of tan resulting from sunbathing or the use of tanning beds

    feminine · slang
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Low German schinke, from Middle Low German schinke, from Old Saxon skinka, from Proto-West Germanic *skinkō. Cognate with Swedish skinka. In relation to the tanning sense, compare Japanese ガングロ (ganguro, literally “black face”).

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