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单词 skinny
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skinnyadj.n.

Brit. /ˈskɪni/, U.S. /ˈskɪni/
Forms: see skin n. and -y suffix1; also 1800s– skiny (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1900s– skinnay (nonstandard, in sense B. 2).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: skin n., -y suffix1.
Etymology: < skin n. + -y suffix1.The semantic motivation in sense B. 2 is unclear.
A. adj.
1.
a. glorious skinny: (perhaps) beautiful or splendid of skin; attractive in appearance. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective]
gracious1340
glorious skinnyc1400
drawing1435
gracefulc1449
attrayant1477
well-favoured1539
alluring1567
graceda1586
attracting1589
attractive1592
winning1596
appealing1598
taking1603
allicient1613
enchantinga1616
motive1615
temptinga1616
allurant1631
catchinga1640
gaining1642
canny1643
charmful1656
charming1664
mignon1671
disarminga1718
prepossessing1737
seducing1749
seductive176.
eye-catching1770
sweet1779
catchy1784
attaching1785
engaging1816
cute1834
cunning1843
taky1854
cynosural1855
smart1860
fetching1880
seductious1883
fruity1900
barry1923
hot stuff1928
swoony1934
dishy1961
dolly1964
jiggy1996
aegyo2007
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 194 Heroud is as muche to seie as ‘ioynge in skinnes’, or ‘gloriouse skinny’ [L. gloss. pelliceus gloriosus]: þerof is seid a comune wommon þat is ioynge in hure skyn, and gloriouse in þingus wiþoute-forþ.
b. Covered by skin; spec. designating the part of a piece of meat lying just below the skin. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [adjective] > lying next to the skin
skinny1606
1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing ii. iii. 51 Take a peece of glouers leather, that is very thin, & pick away the skinny side, and put your gold therein binding it close.
1654 J. Cooper Art of Cookery 131 These Pies must either be long or square, and not so deep, for your Salmon baketh best split. Throw on the backs the Gills taken out, and the skinnie side downward.
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 114 Take the rump-end of the Back-bone, and lay it..with the skinny side upward.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. P3v Roast a Goose..with the skinny Side downwards.
1782 E. Spencer Mod. Cook 108 Bone your hare and take away all the skinny part.
1800 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 169 A fine fresh herring..was divided longitudinally into two parts... On the 2d night, they were very lucid on the skinny side, but not on the fleshy or inward part.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Rock The skinny part of roasted meat which before the whole can be dressed, becomes tough and dry, like a trip overkept.
1873 C. E. Beecher Housekeeper & Healthkeeper i. viii. 50 Broiled mutton or lamb chops.—Cut off the skinny part, which only turns black and can not be eaten.
c. Of, relating to, or affecting the skin. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > skin > [adjective] > affecting the skin
skinny1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peaucier, skinnie; of, in, or belonging to, the skinne.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxi. 318 In Cutaneous or skinny Distempers.
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxviii. 420 An excellent Medicine in skinny Disorders.
2. Consisting of or resembling (the) skin; film-like, membranous.In quot. 1641 figurative.
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the world > life > the body > skin > [adjective]
skinned?a1425
skinny?1541
integumental1836
integumentary1846
percutaneous1862
exoskeletal1870
intracutaneous1885
intradermic1888
intradermal1900
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [adjective] > with a thin coating > forming a thin coating
skinny?1541
filmy1628
filmlike1804
skimming1843
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. H.j Demaunde. Wherof is the substaunce of the coueryng of the herte? Answere. It is called precordium, & is of a skynny substaunce.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 688 To flie with skinny winges.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiii. Proeme The bones charged with purulent and skinnie matter.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 236 Heere is also to be obserued a skinny Ligament.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 13 Settling in a skinny congealment of ease and sloth at the top.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 6 The Bee hath four dry pellucid skinny wings.
1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 94 Those loosened Pieces of skinny Membranes.
1792 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants III. Introd. p. xxviii The middle row of scales the largest, all more or less membranaceous and skinny.
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 71 Whirls..surrounded by a skinny sheath.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 569 The hair sprang up in the skin, being of a skinny and stringy nature.
1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes xx. 160 The numerous skinny appendages round the mouth.
1976 M. L. Andrews Life that lives on Man 11 After a bath..they [sc. microorganisms] emerge from the nooks and skinny crannies where they multiply.
2007 L. Pelzman And No More Sorrow iii. 105 They [sc. lice] fill up with blood in no time, so that their thin, skinny membrane explodes with the slightest touch.
3. colloquial.
a. Of a person, animal, or body part: lacking flesh, esp. to an unusual or unattractive degree; thin, lean; scrawny.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 43 Each at once her choppie finger laying Vpon her skinnie Lips. View more context for this quotation
1724 A. Ramsay Health 118 With skinny cheek, pale lips, and blood-run eyes.
1781 J. Reynolds Journey Flanders & Holland in Wks. (1797) II. 29 The daughter of Herod..is rather beautiful, but too skinny and lean.
1837 N. Hawthorne in Knickerbocker Jan. 32 The skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 274 His long skinny arms all covered with anchors and arrows and letters.
1862 C. M. Yonge Countess Kate i. 3 Kate was tall, skinny, and brown, though perfectly healthful.
1879 Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 415 A chicken..sometimes skinny and often ill-kept.
1938 D. Runyon Furthermore v. 81 He is a tall skinny guy with a long, sad, mean-looking kisser, and a mournful voice.
1960 B. Crump Good Keen Man 12 A skinny old sow trotted out of the crown-fern above me.
1986 C. Bukowski You get so Alone at Times 66 Mary Lou was skinny and not much to look at.
2001 Cosmopolitan Dec. 195/2 When I was starting out, you had to be waif-thin, and I was never skinny enough.
b. Of things: lacking in size or substance; unusually narrow or thin.In early use difficult to distinguish from sense A. 2.
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1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. ii. 127 Skinny shrivelled grain produces food weak and unsubstantial.
1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xxvii. 215 So comes the winter and the bank-roll's getting skinny.
1955 P. Chayefsky Marty in Television Plays 155 The three-a you anna baby live in three skinny rooms.
1978 Hot Car June 91/4 The combination of large rear wheels and tyres along with small, skinny front ones.
1994 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. v. 20/5 Black beans and skinny noodles in a spicy broth.
4. colloquial. Mean, stingy; (also) grudging.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective]
gnedec900
gripplea1000
fastOE
narrow-hearteda1200
narrow?c1225
straitc1290
chinchc1300
nithinga1325
scarcec1330
clama1340
hard1340
scantc1366
sparingc1386
niggardc1400
chinchy?1406
retentivea1450
niggardousa1492
niggish1519
unliberal1533
pinching1548
dry1552
nigh1555
niggardly1560
churlish1566
squeamish1566
niggardish1567
niggard-like1567
holding1569
spare1577
handfast1578
envious1580
close-handed1585
hard-handed1587
curmudgeonly1590
parsimonious?1591
costive1594
hidebound1598
penny-pinching1600
penurious1600
strait-handed1600
club-fisted1601
dry-fisted1604
fast-handed1605
fast-fingered1607
close-fisted1608
near1611
scanting1613
carkingc1620
illiberal1623
clutch-fisteda1634
hideboundeda1640
clutch-fista1643
clunch-fisted1644
unbounteous1645
hard-fisted1646
purse-bound1652
close1654
stingy1659
tenacious1676
scanty1692
sneaking1696
gripe-handed1698
narrow-souled1699
niggardling1704
snippy1727
unindulgent1742
shabby1766
neargoinga1774
cheesemongering1781
split-farthing1787
save-all1788
picked1790
iron-fisted1794
unhandsome1800
scaly1803
nearbegoing1805
tight1805
nippit1808
nipcheese1819
cumin-splitting1822
partan-handed1823
scrimping1823
scrumptious1823
scrimpy1825
meanly1827
skinny1833
pinchfisted1837
mean1840
tight-fisted1843
screwy1844
stinty1849
cheeseparing1857
skinflinty1886
mouly1904
mingy1911
cheapskate1912
picey1937
tight-assed1961
chintzy1964
tightwad1976
1833 T. Hood Public Dinner 152 The subscription still skinny.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Skinny, mean; inhospitable.
1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Jane's Repentance in Scenes Clerical Life 163/1 Liza told me herself as Mrs. Phipps was as skinny as skinny i' the kitchen, for all they keep so much company.
1890 Lancet 2 Aug. 246/2 As a rule, the whole of the men in a factory would contribute, and ‘skinny’ ones were not let off easily.
1938 Moberly (Missouri) Monitor-Index 19 May 9/5 Nettie and Pam are related, an' it's a mean skinny way to treat your own flesh and blood, talkin' like Nettie is.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird ix. 115 Why was he being so skinny about it, instead of laughing?
1997 W. Rollinson Dict. Cumbrian Dial. 146/2 Skinny, mean, stingy.
5. Of clothing: tight-fitting.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > that fits in specific way > close-fitting
straita1387
justc1440
sitting1440
close1488
well-fitted1590
close-bodied1677
succinct1714
tightish1775
tight1784
full-fashioned1812
skintight1838
snug1838
fully-fashioned1844
tight-fitting1846
close-fitting1870
slim1884
skin-fitting1915
skinny1915
slinky1921
tight-ass1969
1915 Waterloo (Iowa) Times-Tribune 4 Feb. 9/7 (heading) Skinny clothes in vogue this year. The correctly dressed man for 1915 will display a ‘quick fit’. Fashion has decreed that the tight fitting clothes of the past year shall become more so.
1959 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 July e13/2 Variety is infinite in the cocktail and evening clothes. Beside the resurrected sack, there are skinny three-tiered effects, sheaths and puffballs.
1970 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird vii. 96 Janey's friends..in skinny sweaters and bell-bottomed corduroy trousers.
1982 Times 2 Apr. 10/3 Teddy bear fur over skinny suede skirts.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 May e7/3 Skinny jeans are pretty much a backlash against the boot-leg cut.
6. Originally U.S. Of an item of food or a drink: low-calorie or low-fat; spec. of a cup of coffee: made with skimmed or semi-skimmed milk.
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1969 N.Y. Times 2 Nov. f39/6 (advt.) Virtually every leading food producer is in the Lo-Calorie business... Skinny Shakes..Skinny Malteds..Skinny Parfaits..Skinny Hot Chocolate.
1993 N.Y. Times 22 Dec. c6 Many New Yorkers are becoming fluent in the new language by practicing at home in front of the mirror—make that a double-tall-iced-decaf-skinny cappuccino, please.
2002 Eve Oct. 147/2 A skinny Venti latte has 144 fewer calories, and a slinky 17g less fat than its whole-milk cousin.
B. n.
1.
a. colloquial. A skinny person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having
staffc1405
notomy1487
rakea1529
crag1542
scrag1542
sneakbill1546
starveling1546
slim1548
ghost1590
bald-rib1598
bare-bone1598
bow-case1599
atomy1600
sneaksbill1602
thin-gut1602
anatomya1616
sharg1623
skeleton1630
raw-bone1635
living skeleton1650
strammel1706
scarecrow1711
rickle of bones1729
shargar1754
squeeze-crab1785
rack of bones1804
thread-paper1824
bag of bones1838
dry-bones1845
skinnymalink1870
hairpin1879
slim jim1889
skinny1907
underweight1910
asthenic1925
ectomorph1940
skinny-malinky1957
matchstick1959
1907 G. B. Shaw in H. Jackson Bernard Shaw i. 40 We called each other ‘the skinnies’, the implication being that we were inadequately fed at school.
1946 Sunday Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 Mar. 10/5 Under proper supervision the skinnies take on curves and the plumpies slimmer [sic] down.
1977 Time 6 June 48/2 The skinnies of the world have, in effect, righteously established fitness standards that reward their own strengths and forgive their weaknesses.
2005 Loaded July 68/1 I've always been attracted to large women. Although I lost my virginity to a ‘skinny’, I only go for big girls these days.
b. Australian slang. A girl or young woman. rare.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 67 Skinny, a girl or young woman.
c. colloquial. Something which is a thin or skinny example of its kind.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > thinness > [noun] > example of something thin
skinny1961
1961 John o' London's 30 Nov. 603/1 Among the Skinnies is a delicious giggler, Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book.
1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. a16 (advt.) You can trade an even 12.50 for an exclusive YSL skinny [sc. a tie].
1987 Hot Rod Aug. 57/1 Weld wheels fore and aft fitted with Michelin..skinnies up front and Pro Trac..balloons out back.
2007 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Fashion section) 7 I usually go for skinnies,..but I tried these on and really liked them.
d. Originally U.S. A cup of coffee or a coffee-based beverage made with skimmed or semi-skimmed milk (cf. A. 6).
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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream
milk coffeec1695
café au lait1763
mélange1838
caffè latte1847
sergeant-major1923
café crème1936
cappuccino1948
mochaccino1963
flat white1971
latte macchiato1976
cortado1985
caffè macchiato1988
latte1989
skinny1992
1992 Washington Post 17 June e14/1 Baristas often call drinks made with skim milk ‘skinnies’.
1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 31 July 10/3 An unleaded skinny has had a lot of nasty, heart-racing, artery-clogging gunk taken out of it but..is it worth drinking if it's so safe?
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 101 All of a sudden we were ordering double skinnies like we knew what they were.
2. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). With the. Detailed and esp. confidential information about a person or topic, ‘the low-down’; (also more generally) news, gossip.
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society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]
speechc1000
wordOE
hearinga1300
opinion1340
talesa1375
famea1387
inklinga1400
slandera1400
noising1422
rumour?a1425
bruit1477
nickinga1500
commoninga1513
roarc1520
murmura1522
hearsay?1533
cry1569
scandal1596
vogue1626
discourse1677
sough1716
circulation1775
gossip1811
myth1849
breeze1879
sound1899
potin1922
dirt1926
rumble1929
skinny1938
labrish1942
lie and story1950
scam1964
he-say-she-say1972
factoid1973
ripple1977
goss1985
1938 R. Hallet Rolling World 287 Had she really given me the skinny of an actual legend from the archives of her race, or was she wafting me the native poetry of her soul?
1957 A. Myrer Big War 94 I'll cut you in on some hot skinnay.
1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xxiii. 363 Come to lay some skinny on you that I picked up off the vine.
1979 D. Anthony Long Hard Cure xxi. 162 Who killed her, Butler? Let's have the skinny.
1980 ‘L. Cody’ Dupe xxiii. 165 Give them the skinny but keep the kudos.
2006 Loaded Dec. 168 We get the skinny on the hectic world of the Virgin Mobile Cup—and the TV show that's captured all the action.

Compounds

C1. Forming parasynthetic adjectives.
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1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 351 L. Scariosa, Skinny cupped Liatris.
1851 H. Murray Falkenberg ii. 21 I do not mean to say that there exist not upon our earth certain skinny-armed spinsters, and certain fearful old females.
1858 G. Roy Generalship (1860) ii. 15 I wonder whether he thought musical genius should be confined exclusively to his skinny-necked daughters!
1930 R. Gore-Browne By Way of Confession vi. 52 The retort came from a skinny-necked man.
1966 J. J. Phillips Mojo Hand xvi. 174 This mama ain't going to take no shit from a skinny-legged bandy-hen like you!
1999 New Yorker 31 May 35/3 ‘Eloise’, which was first published in 1955, is the story of a skinny-limbed six-year-old who has a devilish spirit.
C2.
Skinny Liz n. (also Skinny Lizzie) colloquial a thin girl or woman; (also) any elderly woman.
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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]
old wifeeOE
old womanOE
trota1375
carlinec1375
cronec1386
vecke1390
monea1393
hagc1400
ribibec1405
aunt?a1425
crate14..
witchc1475
mauda1500
mackabroine1546
grandam?1550
grannam1565
old lady1575
beldam1580
lucky1629
granny1634
patriarchess1639
runta1652
harridan1699
grimalkin1798
mama1810
tante1815
wifie1823
maw1826
old dear1836
tante1845
Mother Bunch1847
douairière1869
dowager1870
veteraness1880
old trout1897
tab1909
bag1924
crow1925
ma1932
Skinny Liz1940
old bag1947
old boot1958
tannie1958
LOL1960
the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having > woman having
Skinny Liz1940
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 190 St. Bees..used wimp (a corruption of women) and the Arabic bint of women in general, while skinny liz was applied, almost as a nickname, to any elderly woman.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 169 Thin people..skin and bones, skinny,..skinny guts, Skinny Liz, skinny-malink.
1961 N. Fitzgerald Black Welcome iv. 95 She takes no interest in..eatin'. That's why she's such a Skinny Liz.
2006 Mirror (Nexis) 2 Feb. 49 Your boyfriend must have noticed you're no skinny Lizzie and is fine about it, so your prime focus should be whether you're ready for sex, not whether you shape up.
skinny-rib adj. and n. [the apparent connection with rib stitch n. at rib n.1 Compounds 1d is apparently coincidental] (a) adj. (of a top, esp. a sweater) that fits tightly. (b) n. a top, typically a sweater, that fits tightly across the ribs.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > jumper or jersey
turtle-neck1895
skinny-rib1965
pointelle1980
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jumper or jersey > types of > other
pointelle1892
turtle-neck1897
slip-over1919
polo jersey1925
polo jumper1925
polo sweater1925
Sloppy Joe1942
polo neck1959
thick-knit1961
sweater-shirt1964
skinny-rib1965
skivvy1967
mock1989
1965 Times 15 Mar. 15/4 (caption) Sophisticated version of the skinny-rib sweater in luxury all-over cable in 3-ply cashmere; colours white, turquoise, pale blue or scarlet.
1976 Milton Keynes Express 25 June 11/1 (advt.) Skirts, blouses, and skinny ribs.
2000 A. Maxted in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 426 Hattie..disappears into a room and returns brandishing a skinny rib silver top and bootleg leather trousers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

skinnyv.

Brit. /ˈskɪni/, U.S. /ˈskɪni/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: skinny adj.
Etymology: < skinny adj. Compare earlier slim v. 4. With skinnying n. at Derivatives compare earlier slimming n.
colloquial.
intransitive. To become skinny or skinnier, esp. to lose weight. Chiefly with adverbs, esp. down. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > slim [verb (intransitive)] > thin
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relank1545
emaciate1646
to fall off1710
excarnate1735
skeletonize1831
thin1870
skinny1939
1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxii. 423 She thinned out and she skinnied out, an'—she dropped that baby, dead.
1986 Orange County (Calif.) Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Oct. 6 When times got a little tough we began skinnying down, and not investing as heavily in R & D.
1990 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 3 Jan. (People section) b3 My wife will shed me if I don't skinny up. ‘You blot out the sun,’ she said to me the other day.
2003 M. D. O'Brien Cry of Stone 305 The creek skinnied down into a thin brook under the pulsing sun.

Derivatives

ˈskinnying n. (chiefly with down) the action of becoming skinny or skinnier, or an instance of this.
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1981 TV Picture Life Mar. 61/1 (advt.) All the difficult ‘skinnying-down’ has been done for you while you slept.
1997 R. H. Beatty Perfect Cover Let. (2004) vii. 101 Compounding this problem of volume competition has been the ‘skinnying down’ process many employers have gone through in recent years.
2004 Roanoke (Va.) Times (Nexis) 30 Aug. The president calls for a general skinnying of Americans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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