skinless

[ skin-lis ]

adjective
  1. deprived of skin: a skinless carcass.

  2. (of frankfurters or sausages) having no casing.

Origin of skinless

1
First recorded in 1300–50, skinless is from the Middle English word skinles.See skin, -less

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How to use skinless in a sentence

  • Only one other person knew that I was skinless, and she, alas, was skinless too.

    The Debit Account | Oliver Onions
  • The certainty of the absorption by a growing, almost skinless, foetus of any nutritive material in which it is constantly bathed.

    Simon Magus | George Robert Stow Mead