skinhead
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɪn.hɛd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnhɛd
- Hyphenation: skin‧head
Noun
skinhead (plural skinheads)
- Someone with a shaved head.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bald person
- A member of a subculture that arose among working-class youth in late 1960s England or its diaspora, defined by close-cropped or shaven heads and working-class clothing, and often associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.
- 1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Their rules haven't changed: Skinheads are very young, mostly between the ages of 13 and 18, and they come from strictly working class backgrounds. They wear short‐ankled denims, T‐shirts, suspenders and heavy boots known as Bovverboots (Botherboots), and their hair is shorn to an eighth of an inch all over their skulls. They dance the Reggae, a West Indian shuffle, and they drink Coca Cola and they whip up riots at soccer games.
- 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:
- By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
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Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɪn.ɦɛd/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: skin‧head
Noun
skinhead m (plural skinheads)
- skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by a shaved head)
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskinhed/, [ˈs̠k̟inhe̞d]
- Rhymes: -inhed
Noun
skinhead
- skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by a shaved head)
Declension
| Inflection of skinhead (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | skinhead | skinheadit | |
| genitive | skinheadin | skinheadien | |
| partitive | skinheadiä | skinheadejä | |
| illative | skinheadiin | skinheadeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | skinhead | skinheadit | |
| accusative | nom. | skinhead | skinheadit |
| gen. | skinheadin | ||
| genitive | skinheadin | skinheadien | |
| partitive | skinheadiä | skinheadejä | |
| inessive | skinheadissä | skinheadeissä | |
| elative | skinheadistä | skinheadeistä | |
| illative | skinheadiin | skinheadeihin | |
| adessive | skinheadillä | skinheadeillä | |
| ablative | skinheadiltä | skinheadeiltä | |
| allative | skinheadille | skinheadeille | |
| essive | skinheadinä | skinheadeinä | |
| translative | skinheadiksi | skinheadeiksi | |
| abessive | skinheadittä | skinheadeittä | |
| instructive | — | skinheadein | |
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “skinhead”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /isˌkĩˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi/ [isˌkĩˈhɛ.d͡ʒi], /ˌskĩˈʁɛd͡ʒ/ [ˌskĩˈhɛd͡ʒ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃˌkĩˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi/ [iʃˌkĩˈχɛ.d͡ʒi], /ˌskĩˈʁɛd͡ʒ/ [ˌskĩˈχɛd͡ʒ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌskĩˈʁɛd͡ʒ/ [ˌskĩˈhɛd͡ʒ], /isˌkĩˈʁɛ.d͡ʒi/ [isˌkĩˈhɛ.d͡ʒi]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /skiˈnɛd/ [skiˈnɛð]
Noun
skinhead m or f by sense (plural skinheads)
- skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by a shaved head)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Noun
skinhead n (plural skinhead)
- skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by a shaved head)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | skinhead | skinheadul | skinhead | skinheadle | |
| genitive-dative | skinhead | skinheadului | skinhead | skinheadlor | |
| vocative | skinheadule | skinheadlor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eskiˈned/ [es.kiˈneð̞]
- Rhymes: -ed
Noun
skinhead m or f by sense (plural skinheads or skinhead)
- skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by a shaved head)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Swedish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English skinhead.
Noun
skinhead c
- synonym of skinnskalle
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | skinhead | skinheads |
| definite | skinheaden | skinheadens | |
| plural | indefinite | skinheads | skinheadss |
| definite | skinheadsen | skinheadsens |