skint

Etymology
The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of

Adjective

 * 1)  Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
 * 2)  skinned
 * 1)  skinned

Usage notes

 * Cockney rhyming slang for skint is boracic lint, or just boracic. It is pronounced as brassic.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: aan den arme
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: al verde
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian: шворц, декинтиран