"What's the skeenar,
Pops?"
Usage Note: Permutations of this
root have manifested in contemporary parlance to encompass a wide variety of definitions, often with
little or no etymological fidelity to it's natural origin. Terms such as 'skeeny', 'skeenarific' and 'skeenacity' for example, generally connote a vague sense of the favorable or auspicious, whereas the verb to '
skeen' can mean 'to acquire or achieve by disreputable means'. Modern linguists tend to view 'skeenar' and it's variants as inordinately elastic terms; whether this helps or hinders their popularity remains to be seen.