Talk:Skidamarink
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Additional citations[edit]
Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 08:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Howdy! Skidamarink is NOT the Jimmy Durante song. This is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inka_Dinka_Doo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.6.41.121 (talk) 20:26, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Scottish origins[edit]
Anyone with even a passing awareness of the oral traditions of urban Lowland Scotland, will be acquainted with Skinny Malinky, usually in the form Skinny Malinky Long Legs; as cited here https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/skinny-malinky-long-legs-classic-20050781 wherein is also mentioned a likely derivation from skinny mannekie, for a painfully thin little man (a mannikin in its original sense); as well as an excerpt from the Brechin Advertiser of 1892 ('Twa SKINAMALINKS o' the genus horse').
Were the said Brechin Advertiser of 1892 to be actually hunted down and dated, it might constitute a textual source for the earliest origin of this highly variable phrase.