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Meaning of SKINNY

Pronunciation:  'skinee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
 
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 Synonyms: lean, scraggy, scrawny, thin, underweight, weedy
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Skin"ny\, a.
Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
``Her skinny lips.'' --Shak.
      He holds him with a skinny hand.         --Coleridge.
 

 

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