Meaning
Skin — the Patois form of 'skin', which turns up in a whole family of vivid expressions: 'kin teet' (to grin, to skin the teeth), 'kin pupalick' (to turn a somersault, especially with joy), and 'kin up' (to expose or bare something). As a verb, to 'kin' something is to peel or skin it, to strip off its outer covering. So the word runs from the plain skin of the body to the many colourful idioms built on it, naming both the covering and the act of drawing it back or peeling it off.
Examples
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Di sun bun mi kin.
The sun burned my skin.
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Him kin him teet inna big smile.
He bared his teeth in a big grin.
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She kin pupalick when she hear she win.
She turned a joyful somersault when she heard she won.
Origin
The Patois pronunciation of 'skin', which anchors a family of idioms about baring, peeling, and grinning.
How it’s used
Means 'skin'; idiom-rich — 'kin teet' (grin), 'kin pupalick' (somersault of joy). See [[skin-teet]].