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scrawny
[ skraw-nee ]
adjective
scrawnier, scrawniest.
- excessively thin; lean; scraggy:
a long, scrawny neck.
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scrawny
/ ˈɔːɪ /
adjective
- very thin and bony; scraggy
- meagre or stunted
scrawny vegetation
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Derived Forms
- ˈɲԾ, adverb
- ˈɲԾԱ, noun
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Other Word Forms
- ɲi· adverb
- ɲi·Ա noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scrawny1
C19: variant of dialect scranny; see scrannel
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West Sacramento has long been the region’s scrawny stepchild of a municipality.
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More than two years later, video showed the scrawny teen calling out for his mother as five officers piled onto him.
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An explanation for the condition came near the end of World War II, when René Spitz, an Austrian psychoanalyst, observed that infants in a Mexican orphanage tended to be listless, scrawny and slow to develop.
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Was it open wide enough for a scrawny seven-year-old to fit through?
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Outweighed by more than 30 pounds, the scrawny, gritty Harrelson got the worst of it.
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