skinny-dipper

1. 1.

   a naked swimmer

   Broaderswimmer

Questions about skinny-dipper

What does skinny-dipper mean?

skinny-dipper means "a naked swimmer".

How many syllables are in skinny-dipper?

skinny-dipper has 4 syllables and divides as skin-ny--dip-per under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is skinny-dipper a common word?

skinny-dipper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.