After reading the last post where OP self-described as 'skint' - I started thinking about its word-origin. I speculated was that perhaps the word was a corruption of the term skin flint... skin flint/skint... see? So... I tried to look it up and see where it came from...
And I discovered
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/ HOURS of fun with multiple Brit-dialect translators. Fun fun fun in the sun.