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scrawny, a. orig. U.S.|ˈskrɔːnɪ|
[Variant of scranny.]
Lean, scraggy.
1833[see scrawly]. 1847Emerson Poems, Alphonso Wks. (Bohn) I. 408 Yon pale, scrawny fisher fools, Gaunt as bitterns in the pools. 1876C. D. Warner Winter on Nile ii. 35 What a lot of scrawny old women. 1883W. H. Bishop Old Mexico xxiii. 333 The..tough, fragrant, but scrawny, eucalyptus is much in use as a shade-tree. 1946D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist iv. 43 The one where my scrawny, bronchitic body would find itself was stone-cold, a dirty grey, so I would mentally adjourn to the other. 1977J. F. Fixx Compl. Bk. Running vi. 80 Frank Shorter, who won an Olympic gold medal in the 1972 marathon, is 5 feet 10½ inches and weighs a scrawny 134. 1977New Yorker 27 June 59/2 This beautiful beast that I, a scrawny little thing, am destroying.
Hence ˈscrawniness, scragginess.
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1883) I. 390, I often found,..in the persons of such of my dear countrywomen as I now occasionally met, a certain meagreness, (Heaven forbid that I should call it scrawniness!) |