SCRAWNY

scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy

(adjective) being very thin; “a child with skinny freckled legs”; “a long scrawny neck”; “pale bony hands”

scrawny, scrubby, stunted

(adjective) inferior in size or quality; “scrawny cattle”; “scrubby cut-over pine”; “old stunted thorn trees”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)

Thin, malnourished and weak.

Synonyms

• See also scrawny

Source: Wiktionary


Scraw"ny, a. Etym: [Cf. Scrannel.]

Definition: Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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