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scrawny
[
skraw
-nee
]
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Origin
scrawn·y
/
ˈskrɔ
ni
/
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[
skraw
-nee
]
Show IPA
adjective,
scrawn·i·er,
scrawn·i·est.
excessively thin; lean; scraggy:
a long, scrawny neck.
Origin:
1825–35,
Americanism
;
variant of dial.
scranny
<
Norwegian
skran
lean +
-y
1
Related forms
scrawn·i·ly,
adverb
scrawn·i·ness,
noun
Synonyms
gaunt, emaciated.
Antonyms
fleshy, plump.
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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Example Sentences
The parasite can leave the birds too
scrawny
for market.
Probably because the rest of her body is so
scrawny
.
The
scrawny
young soldier, forgoing any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
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The parasite can leave the birds too
scrawny
for market.
Probably because the rest of her body is so
scrawny
.
The
scrawny
young soldier, forgoing any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
Khandal's informant points to a solitary hut at the edge of a field outside the village, behind two
scrawny
trees.
Several
scrawny
cottonwood trees do not usually generate much excitement in the world of ecology.
Grateful knock-kneed boys with
scrawny
arms and sunken chests reported that their lives had been turned around.
In ounce-for-ounce comparison, mammals and reptiles are
scrawny
weaklings next to birds.
They had lean torsos and narrow shoulders and
scrawny
legs.
Even guard dogs must be imported: local pooches are too
scrawny
and insufficiently savage.
Sadly, my intensive investigations soon wore out the
scrawny
scope.
Its arms were probably so
scrawny
because it didn't use them at all.
Pigs, goats and
scrawny
dogs graze among the chunks of concrete.
The front gate was guarded by a
scrawny
teenage soldier who had not been paid in months.
Scrawny
babies were much more likely to suffer heart problems in middle age.
But the
scrawny
and diseased trees that come from forest treatments have few commercial uses.
My concern is that he has hang-ups about women being all
scrawny
and stuff.
The rest, owned one or two to a family by villagers, are too
scrawny
and diseased to interest agro.
Short,
scrawny
and sickly, he suffered from a hypochondria that convinced him he would.
With unfused vertebrae and
scrawny
shin and ankle bones, the skeleton was almost certainly that of a juvenile.
Ross was a
scrawny
forty-five-year-old with a master's degree in art history and a job as an elementary school janitor.
Out of season shad is
scrawny
and thin, but in season it is plump and succulent.
They're a
scrawny
pound or two, plucked, and are usually sold with the head and feet.
Certain branches such as the song recital remain rather
scrawny
and underdeveloped, but that is not surprising.
Haim underwent rehabilitation for addictions to prescription pills and cocaine and outgrew his once
scrawny
form and image.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
scrawny
(ˈskrɔːnɪ)
—
adj
,
scrawnier
,
scrawniest
1.
very thin and bony; scraggy
2.
meagre or stunted:
scrawny vegetation
[C19: variant of dialect
scranny;
see
scrannel
]
'scrawnily
—
adv
'scrawniness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
scrawny
1833, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from O.N. skrælna "to shrivel."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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