Outskin

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An outer skin; surface.

    "One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned."

  2. 2
    The external skin.

    "They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]"

  3. 3
    A skin or pelt of some special description.
Verb
  1. 1
    To surpass in skinning. transitive

    "There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men."

Example

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"One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned."

Etymology

From out- + skin.

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