Definition of Skimo

1. an Eskimo [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skimo

skimmable
skimmed
skimmed-milk
skimmed milk
skimmel
skimmer
skimmers
skimmia
skimmias
skimming
skimmingly
skimmings
skimmington
skimmingtons
skimmy
skimo (current term)
skimobile
skimobiled
skimobiles
skimobiling
skimos
skimp
skimp and save
skimp over
skimped
skimpier
skimpiest
skimpily
skimpiness
skimpinesses

Literary usage of Skimo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"skimo tribes, preventing frequent intercourse. A stranger often challenged to a contest of strength or endurance and if vanquished forfeits his life. ..."

2. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"In short, even among the ^skimo, who constitute an a fortiori case, monogamy is the rule in practice, though polygyny is permitted ..."

3. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"*i6g RINK, HJ Tales and Traditions of the F.skimo. Edinburgh, 1875- *io RINK, S. "The Girl and the Dogs—An Eskimo Folk-Tale," Am. Anth., 11:181-87; 209-15. ..."

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