skank

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /ˈskeɪ̯ŋk/|[ˈskeɪ̯ŋk]|/ˈskɛ̃ŋk/|[ˈskɛ̃ŋk]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity. countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable
    — Whenever a slang word is heard, the youngsters note it, then write sentences which include the word. […]Hawk: to watch – as in “Man, that skank steady hawks me in school.”
  2. A dance performed to ska, dub, or reggae music. countable,uncountable
    — […]the ability to double up with contagious laughter; the feeling of pure child-like glee; and the mesmerizing, trance-like skank dancing that looks like African aerobics after centuries of rhythm.
  3. The act of cheating a person.
    — That's not a good deal; it's a skank.
  4. Anything that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant. countable,uncountable
    — Virgins. I love 'em. No diseases, no loose as a goose pussy, no skank. No nothin'. Just pure pleasure.
  5. A style of rhythmic guitar strumming in ska, reggae, and punk. uncountable
    — A typical skank guitar rhythm: {\time3/4\tempo4=180\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"electric guitar (muted)"\repeat unfold2{r8a4}\repeat unfold2{r8g4
动词 v.
  1. To dance the skank.
    — Four-thousand miles away, there is a reggae night spot called Club 69, where local youth wear dreadlocks... and dance ska, rocksteady, and skank to the beats of the Wailers.... Club 69 is in Tokyo, the dread youths are Japanese.
  2. To cheat or betray, especially a friend. transitive
    — He short-changed a partner, leaving him feeling skanked.
  3. To play guitar with a skank rhythm.
    — Joe Strummer and Mick Jones did a lot of skanking. Skanking refers to a style of playing using scratch (page 17) rhythms with a strong accent on the off-beats (1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &) rather than the on-beats.
  4. To steal, or otherwise acquire underhandedly. transitive
    — of course, maybe somebody that works at the factory where it was pressed could have skanked a few copies...
  5. To be dishonest or unreliable, to defraud or deceive, to steal. Jamaica,intransitive,transitive
    — Only Tosh, Marley and Livingston had been signed, and Aston Barrett harboured an unarticulated resentment that later would be couched in the language of betrayal[…] In any event ‘Family Man’ believed that they had an oral agreement, and placed his faith in Marley (from whom they received their wages) that he would not skank them.
形容词 adj.
  1. Lewd, vulgar, skanky. derogatory,slang
    — "I wear provocative clothes because they make me feel sexy," Toni says without apology. "If an artist like Madonna is wearing her booty hanging out, she's considered a genius. But if a black person does it, we're considered skank whores or sluts."
  2. Foul, unhygienic. derogatory,slang
    — You can even be a wee bit more skank and don a dirty shirt. Unwashed underwear, however, is a no-go.

词形变化

skanks plural more skank comparative most skank superlative skanks plural skanks present,singular,third-person skanking participle,present skanked participle,past skanked past skanks plural skanks present,singular,third-person skanking participle,present skanked participle,past skanked past

词汇关系

衍生词
Skanksgiving skank up skanky skanker

词源

词源 1
Unknown. Perhaps from skag (“unattractive woman”), but the origins of skag are unknown. Compare scold (“troublesome woman”), skeevy (“disgusting”). Attested from the 1960s.
词源 2
Originally Jamaican, attested from the twentieth century, but earliest source is uncertain. The verb sense be dishonest is evidently older. Perhaps originally onomatopoeic. The dance senses may come from a resemblance to motorcyclists weaving between larger vehicles. Compare skanker.
词源 3
Slang word used in Northern England. Unknown. Perhaps from etymology 2, above; attested in West Indian and UK black slang from the twentieth century.
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