Scrawny
['skrɔːnɪ] or ['skrɔni]
Definition
(adj.) inferior in size or quality; 'scrawny cattle'; 'scrubby cut-over pine'; 'old stunted thorn trees' .
Typist: Ralph--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Colloquial, U. S.] Thin, lank, meagre, scraggy, SCRANNY.
Checker: Lyman
Definition
adj. wasted: raw-boned.—n. Scraw′niness.
Editor: Samantha
Examples
- These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If ever there was a symptom that this nation needed leisure and direct participation in games, it is that poor scrawny substitute for joy--the baseball extra. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Margery