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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1300}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /skɪp/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English skippen, probably from a Scandinavian source:^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) compare [[non|skopa|t=to take a run]] and dialect Swedish skopa, to skip or leap,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[gem-pro|*skupaną]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To leap or spring lightly: probably before 1300, in ''Kyng Alisaunder'', in Barnhart;^(Barnhart 1988) about 1300 in Etymonline.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ To run off or flee is from the mid-14th century, and ''skip out'' from the late 14th.^(Etymonline) To pass over and omit parts, as in reading, is first recorded in Chaucer's ''Legend of Good Women'' (about 1386).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) To bounce, as a stone across water, is from the mid-15th century, and to make something skip from the 1680s.^(Etymonline) The noun, a light leap, is from the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) ''Skip it!'' is by 1856,^(Etymonline) the skipping rope by 1799,^(Etymonline) and to fail to attend, ''skip school'', from 1810.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 1300 – to leap lightly.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * mid-14th century – to flee.^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1386 – to omit, in Chaucer.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1799 – skipping rope.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1810 – skip school.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move lightly with little hops and jumps.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To jump over a rope swung under the feet.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To leave out or pass over: ''skip a chapter''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To fail to attend or do: ''skip lunch''.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # To bounce a flat stone across water.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A light jump or hop.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[skippable]]

+ * [[skippingly]]

+ * [[hit-skip]]

+ * [[outskip]]

+ * [[nonskipping]]

+ * [[skip bombing]]

+ * [[skip tracer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[skipper]]

+ * [[skipping rope]]

+ * [[skep]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different skip, a large open container for builders' rubbish, is a variant of [[skep]], a basket (early 19th century in this sense).^(SOED 2002)^(MWU 2024) Skip is also short for [[skipper]], the captain of a team, from 1830 in curling.^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}