1573, "resembling skin," from skin (n.). Meaning "emaciated" is recorded from 1605. In the sense of "the truth" it is World War II military slang, perhaps from the notion of the "naked" truth. Skinny-dip first recorded 1950s.
n. inside information. : I've got the hot skinny on Mary and her boyfriend.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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My best friend's, skinny as a rail, husband was diagnosed with it last year.
If you're looking to lose weight, here's a simple tip: don't dine with theskinny dude who stuffs his face.
Which by itself would be neither interesting nor relevant if it weren't for all the skinny people around him.
In the nineteenth century, ballerinas were scolded for being too skinny.
He is skinny and poor, and he has only two teeth left in his head.
So you smug sanctimonious skinny guys are dying as well.
We tell people that big is beautiful and worry about eating disorders and people thinking they're not skinny enough.
Visually, lines work less as demarcations of the surface than as skinny shapes wriggling atop it.
But there the cops were, spending my money to chase down harmless skinny-dippers and dune-canoodlers.
Most have limestone surfaces which pack down to make for good riding for skinny-tired as well as mountain bikes.