In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
SKINNIEST
SKINNY
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”
cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny
(adjective) giving or spending with reluctance; “our cheeseparing administration”; “very close (or near) with his money”; “a penny-pinching miserly old man”
tightfitting, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny
(adjective) fitting snugly; “a tightly-fitting cover”; “tight-fitting clothes”
skinny
(adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
skinniest
superlative form of skinny: most skinny
Source: Wiktionary
SKINNY
Skin"ny, a.
Definition: Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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