Scotland · adjective
skint
Having little or no money available.
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What skint means
Skint means temporarily short of money or completely out of spending money.
How it is used
Someone may say they are skint before payday or after an expensive week. It usually describes current circumstances rather than permanent poverty.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Pronunciation
- /skɪnt/
- Register
- Informal Scottish and wider British English.
- Variants
- No common variant listed
Examples
Each example is followed by its intended plain-English meaning.
I’m skint until Friday.
I have no spare money until Friday.
We stayed in because we were skint.
We stayed in because we had little money.
What to watch for
The word can sound insensitive when used casually about serious financial hardship.
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