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

skinny

(noun) confidential information about a topic or person; “he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

skinny (comparative skinnier, superlative skinniest)

(informal) thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).

(informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.

Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).

(of clothing) tight-fitting

Synonyms

• See also scrawny

Antonyms

• See also obese

Noun

skinny (plural skinnies)

(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

A state of nakedness; nudity.

(informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.

A skinny being.

Verb

skinny (third-person singular simple present skinnies, present participle skinnying, simple past and past participle skinnied)

(transitive) To reduce or cut down.

Source: Wiktionary


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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