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scrawny - 4 dictionary results

scrawn⋅y

[skraw-nee]
–adjective, scrawn⋅i⋅er, scrawn⋅i⋅est.
excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; var. of dial. scranny < Norw skran lean + -y 1


scrawn⋅i⋅ly, adverb
scrawn⋅i⋅ness, noun


gaunt, emaciated.


fleshy, plump.
scraw·ny   (skrô'nē)   
adj.   scraw·ni·er, scraw·ni·est
Gaunt and bony. See Synonyms at lean2.

[Alteration of dialectal scranny, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian skran, lean.]
scraw'ni·ness n.

Scrawny

Scraw"ny\, a. [Cf. Scrannel.] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
Language Translation for : scrawny
Spanish: flaco, escuálido,
German: mager,
Japanese: やせた

scrawny 
1833, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from O.N. skrælna "to shrivel."
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