scrawny
pronunciation
How to pronounce scrawny in British English:
UK [ˈskrɔːni]
How to pronounce scrawny in American English:
US [ˈskrɔːni]
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- Adjective:
- having unattractive thinness
- inferior in size or quality
Word Origin
- scrawny (adj.)
- 1824, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), which is of uncertain origin but probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse skrælna "to shrivel." Compare scrannel.
Example
- 1. That said , some americans do believe that the scrawny us-eu arm needs more muscle .
- 2. Would people really accept pricey free-range beef and scrawny barnyard chickens perhaps once or twice a week ?
- 3. Slimane , who goes on " model safaris " to source scrawny teenagers from the streets and clubs of antwerp , berlin and bristol , is obsessed with british youth culture .
- 4. Those same hands , in west bengal in 1971 , had massaged the scrawny limbs of bangladeshi refugees , and in december 1984 had soothed the burning eyes of victims of the explosion at a chemical factory in bhopal .
- 5. An ancient global warming event shrunk the earliest horses down to the size of scrawny housecats , according to new research that could have implications for what mammals might look like in a future warming world .