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intj
The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
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intj
The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.
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verb
To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
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verb
To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.
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History
Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.
From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.
