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Scrawny

//ˈskɹɔni// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Thin, malnourished, and weak.

    "“Tell him, in these words, that I will have his scrawny bones before me now. Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children. Go.”"

Adjective
  1. 1
    being very thin wordnet
  2. 2
    inferior in size or quality wordnet

Etymology

A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).

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