Meaning and Origin
What does the name Skip mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from New Zealand, the name Skip is of English origin and means "Blessed Child".
- A basket. See Skep.(Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot)
- A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
- [Mining] An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
- [Sugar Manuf] A charge of sirup in the pans.
- A beehive; a skep.
Etymology: See Skep
- To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit."The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" [Pope.]"So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically." [Hawthorne.]
- Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
Etymology: OE. skippen, of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. skopa run, skoppa to spin like a top, OSw. & dial. Sw. skimmpa to run, skimpa skompa, to hop, skip; or Ir. sgiob to snatch, Gael. sgiab to start or move suddenly, to snatch, W. ysgipio to snatch
- To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope.
- To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson."They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters." [Bp. Burnet.]
- To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone.(Colloq)
- A light leap or bound.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- [Mus] A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A mistake resulting from neglect
- A gait in which steps and hops alternate
- Bypass ("He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible")
- Cause to skip over a surface ("Skip a stone across the pond")
- Bound off one point after another
- Jump lightly
- Leave suddenly ("skip town")
- Intentionally fail to attend
From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, *skupaną (“to scoff, mock”), related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Middle Swedish skuppa (“to skip”).
- A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (radio) skywave propagation
A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
skip was also found in the following language(s): Afrikaans, Faroese, Gothic, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Old Norse, and Old Saxon