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Meaning of SCRAWNY

Pronunciation:  'skronee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
  2. [adj]  inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
 
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 Synonyms: inferior, lean, scraggy, scrubby, skinny, stunted, thin, underweight, weedy
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Scraw"ny\, a. [Cf. {Scrannel}.]
Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
 

 

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