Skinner

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from Afrikaans skinder ‘to slander, gossip’.

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From Middle English skynner, skinner, skynnere, schynnere, equivalent to skin +‎ -er. Cognate with Old Norse skinnari(“skinner”), Old Swedish skinnare(“skinner”), Middle Low German schinder, schinner(“skinner”).

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skinner (n.)

late 14c., "a dealer in skins," from skin (n.); as "one who skins," 1690s, agent noun from skin (v.). The surname is attested from mid-13c. Also in U.S. use "one who strips, robs, or plunders;" the name given to a band of marauders who committed depredations on Loyalists in New York during the Revolution. Compare Old Norse skinnari "a dealer in skins; a skinner, tanner."