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skinfolk

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

People who share the same skin color (race) with one another, especially when they are not otherwise closely associated or similar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-only, uncommon

Examples

  • 2022, Willie Jones (quoted in The Atlantic But as Jones’s career launched, he was disappointed not to find artists who looked like him. “I didn’t have too many other skinfolk to relate to, honestly, in the mainstream country realm,” he told me, “until I started really digging.”

Meaning relationships

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From skin + folk, modelled on kinfolk.