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▪ I. ˈunderweight, n.
[under-1 10 b; under prep. 23 b. Cf. Da. undervægt, Sw. -vigt, Du. onderwigt, G. untergewicht.]
1. Insufficient weight; deficiency in weight.
1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law ii. (1635) 8 Tradesmen of all sorts, selling with under weights or measures. 1647N. Ward Simple Cobler 30 They never complain of me for giving them hard measure, or under-weight. 1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 470 The underweight of these bales made the stock seem larger than it really was. 1894Boston Arena June 44 The minutest difference of overweight or underweight in the coin.
attrib.1890Daily News 22 Feb. 5/4 The first cost of the restoration of all underweight coins.
2. a. The condition or quality of being lighter than average for one's height and build.
1935H. S. Diehl Textbk. Healthful Living x. 143 Both underweight and overweight are handicaps to employment,..for women overweight is a greater handicap than underweight. 1952R. Macaulay Let. 16 May (1961) 313, I suspect that thinness and under-weight may be a physical quality that you and I share.
b. [Absol. use of adj.] An underweight person.
1910A. Bryce Laws of Life & Health vii. 247 It is quite a common thing for underweights to live to eighty, ninety, or even a hundred. 1935H. Roberts Everyman in Health & Sickness ii. iv. 152 The longest lived are found among the underweights.
▪ II. underˈweight, a.
Also under-weight.
[under-2.]
a. Not sufficiently heavy, lacking in weight; spec. of a person: lighter than average for one's height and build; too thin.
1899[see over-weight a.]. 1925C. E. Turner Personal & Community Health ii. 53 The underfed person drags himself about—underweight, pale,..and pessimistic. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird i. 5 He was a tall, underweight man in his early thirties. 1979Irish Times 28 Sept. 3/6 Two British boats had been found to be underweight but no action was taken.
b. fig.
1960T. Reese Play Bridge with Reese 15 Partner is sufficiently pleased with the result not to notice that I was under-weight for my medium no-trump. 1977Time 26 Sept. 42/1 The plot of Annie Hall has the two underweight egos twine together, rose and briar. 1985Times 11 Jan. 17/6 With many institutional investors still underweight, the price is set to move up. |