An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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