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scrawny
What does scrawny mean?
scrawny (adjective): thin, malnourished, and weak.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use scrawny in a sentence?
- A long scrawny neck. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce scrawny?
/ˈskɹɔni/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does scrawny come from?
A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of scrawny?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “scrawny”?
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What does “scrawny” mean?
done on purpose; intentional
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thin, malnourished, and weak
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every second one of a series
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filled with a great quantity
Not quite: that's what laden means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “scrawny”?
pale
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mere
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bony
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lazy
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