Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "skin" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

body bucket of chicken co finger fruit good health human own family people pudding trapper's work area

Capable Of

feel clammy feel cold feel exciting to touch feel heat feel pain feel painful feel pressure feel smooth feel stretched feel tender feel texture itches vary in colour

Coordinate Terms

bone gut pluck shear

Dbpedia Genre

alternative metal alternative rock indie rock

Defined As

body's first protection against disease largest organ largest organ of human body

Derived Terms

Fish-skin Tartar all skin and bones bare-skin bareskin batskin bearskin beauty is only skin deep beaverskin beetleskin birdskin blackskin blackskinned bronzed skin disease brown-point shield skin longirostris brownskin buffalo-skin butterfly skin by the skin of one's teeth capeskin caribouskin catskin chicken skin chronic skin-picking clean skin cleanskin clearskin climbing skin collect skin coltskin combination skin combo skin comfortable in one's own skin comfortable in one's skin coon-skin cap coon-skin hat coonskin cowskin darkskin deer-skin deskin dickskin dogskin don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear dragonskin drakeskin drumskin e-skin eelskin elephant skin elkskin enskin fawnskin fish skin fish-skin fish-skin disease fishskin foreskin foxskin frogskin get under someone's skin get underneath someone's skin ghost skin gimme some skin give some skin to glabrous skin gold-beater's skin goldbeater's skin gooseskin grapeskin greenskin grow some skin hare-skin hogskin horseskin hyson skin in one's bare skin it's no skin off my back jump in one's skin kidskin king skin kipskin lay some skin on leopardskin light-skin lightskin lionskin lizardskin lumpy skin disease make one's skin crawl make someone's skin crawl make someone's skin creep milk skin milliskin mooseskin muleskin niggerskin no skin off my nose no skin off one's back no skin off one's nose no skin off one's teeth nonskin oilskin onion skin onionskin otterskin out of one's skin outskin oxskin peeling skin syndrome plastiskin play the skin flute plebeskin poly skin ponyskin poopskin porcelain skin potato skin potato skins rabbitskin ramskin ratskin redskin redskinned reskin rolling skin disease save one's skin save someone's skin scarf-skin shed skin sheep-skin shirts and skins shitskin show skin show some skin silver skin silverskin ski skin skin a flint skin and blister skin and bone skin and bones skin and grin skin art skin back skin beetle skin cancer skin care skin cell skin color skin colour skin cream skin disease skin diving skin effect skin fade skin fasting skin flick skin flute skin food skin forming alloy skin fragility syndrome skin glue skin graft skin grafting skin group skin hunger skin in the game skin job skin mag skin magazine skin merchant skin movie skin name skin of the teeth skin orgasm skin signs skin someone alive skin tag skin the cat skin the lamb skin trade skin type skin up skin virgin skin wool skin worm skin-art skin-crawling skin-deep skin-dive skin-diver skin-flick skin-group skin-mag skin-on skin-picking disorder skin-pop skin-tag skin-tight skin-walker skinbound skinbow skinbyrd skincare skinema skinfeel skinflick skinflint skinflint skinfluencer skinfold skinfolk skinful skingirl skinhead skinimalism skinless skinlike skinnable skinnable skinner skinnery skinny skinny-dip skinpop skinship skinsuit skintag skintern skintight skintone skinwalk skinwalker skinwalking slinkskin slipskin snow skin mooncake soaked to the skin solar skin stagskin staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome sticky skin syndrome stiff skin syndrome swanskin there are many ways to skin a cat there's more than one way to skin a cat thick skin thick-skinned thickskin thin skin thin-skinned tigerskin toadskin tofu skin tough-skinned turnskin underskin veal-skin vealskin walking skin cancer waste of skin weaselskin white skin privilege whiteskin whiteskinned with the skin of one's teeth with whole skin within an inch of one's skin wolf in a lamb's skin wolfskin woolskin wormskin wrinkly skin syndrome

Etymologically Related To

hide shed

Context

australia computing graphical user interface nautical slang soccer uk us video games

Has Property

elastic

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

actor aliveness animation bag body covering bully climb connective tissue doer hooligan injure life living rind roughneck rowdy ruffian strip surface tough worker wound yob yobbo yobo

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

banana skin buckskin calfskin cumskin deerskin doeskin goatskin goose skin lambskin loinskin moleskin pigskin sealskin second skin sharkskin sheepskin snakeskin waterskin wineskin yakskin

Type Of (IsA)

anatomical structure animation bag banana skin body covering body part breathable buckskin calfskin comics character connective tissue deerskin doeskin external anatomical part film goatskin goose skin important organ lambskin layer loinskin moleskin musical artist object surface part of mammal pigskin sealskin sharkskin sheepskin snakeskin surface tactile sensor vibration sensor waterskin wineskin

Manner Of

strip

Part Of

aircraft body integumentary system

Receives Action

burned

Related Terms

cutaneous cutis dermis epidermis

Related Terms

aboriginal animal appearance bare body body covering body layer breast computer program congeal cover cover body covering crib cultural cutaneous cutis dermis epidermis examination flesh follicles fruit geometry graphical user interface hair high five human human body human organ humans largest largest organ layer layout liquid memoranda organ outer outer layer plant pores protection protective protective organ recitation rolling paper surface texture map trick upholstery vessel video game

Synonym Network

baldhead bark clamber dermis film flay hide moiety peel pelt skinhead stub tegument

Used For

adding structural integrity adjusting body temperature allowing perspiration body temperature regulation controlling body temperature covering body covering bones creating form expire get over emotional bumps getting rid of toxins getting tan getting vitamin e from sun grow hair hold in blood holding in blood holding in flesh keeping guts in make grafts to treat burn victums protect against elements protect against world protect insides protect muscle from damage protectin protecting body protecting internal organs removing unwanted things from body repairing burns sensing location of things sensing pain sensing pressure sensing temperature sensing texture shedding dead cells spacing hair staying warm test pressure test temperature

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.