Green’s Dictionary of Slang

without money, out of funds; thus as v., to make penniless.

1912		E. Pugh City Of The World 265: The people o’ the neighbourhood have already been pretty well skun out, as the saying is, and are feeling about as sore over it as a Bank ’Oliday donkey’s back.
1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 385: Skint. Without money.
1929		‘Henry Green’ Living (1978) 361: He thought she looked all one way, skint.
1938		G. Kersh Night and the City 6: ‘You skint?’ ‘Dead skint.’.
1945		J. Maclaren-Ross Swag, the Spy and the Soldier in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No. 26 32: He hadn’t a bean. ‘Dead skint,’ he said.
1956		‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 167: That geezer certainly was far from skint. You never saw such a luxurious layout.
1967		N. Dunn Poor Cow 5: I’m so skint I haven’t even a pair of drawers to wear.
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 71: He would occasionally let you have a mug of tea or a cake when you were completely skint, on promise of payment the following Friday.
1982		J. Sullivan ‘A Losing Streak’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Better make it a small one, don’t want to skint you before tonight’s game do I?
1994		J. O’Connor Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 73: I’m skint as a pox doctor’s clerk. Church mice come up to me in the street.
1999		Indep. Rev. 15 Oct. 14: She hasn’t worked for a few months and says she’s ‘skint’.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 12: The hard day shiz had, wandrin round thuh town, trine tuh seller electrical appliances cos shiz skint.
2006		P. Carey Theft 63: We were skint, the last of the fertilizer money being spent on petrol.
2010		K. Richards Life 40: We were living skint and nasty in the peeling refuse bin of Edith Grove.
2016		V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 216: They’re all skint all the time.
2018		G. Disher Kill Shot [ebook] ‘What assets? You told them we’re skint?’.
2019		A. Killilea Boyo-wulf at https://boyowulf.home.blog 20 Mar. 🌐 [S]caring the shit out of the boss-men, ever since he was found skint as a young fella.