skinny
pronunciation
How to pronounce skinny in British English:
UK [ˈskɪni]
How to pronounce skinny in American English:
US [ˈskɪni]
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- Noun:
- confidential information about a topic or person
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- Adjective:
- having unattractive thinness
Word Origin
- skinny (adj.)
- c. 1400, "resembling skin," from skin (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "lean, emaciated" is recorded from c. 1600. Of clothes, "tight-fitting" by 1970. In the noun sense of "the truth" it is World War II military slang, perhaps from the notion of the "naked" truth. Related: skinniness.
Example
- 1. He was skinny and wore a flannel shirt .
- 2. There was the skinny man on the floor , eyes open with a surgical cap on his head . His skin was turning blue .
- 3. Perhaps the dogs were first , followed by the cats ; infinite masses of birds ; flocks of skinny ewes ; herds of red deer and cows .
- 4. At the conference , one of the attendees said that while she was sympathetic to the idea of getting girls involved in science , she could never have been a cheerleader herself ; she " always hated those skinny bitches . "
- 5. I 'll always remember my mother saying that she did not see why I had to do that , because they would never take a skinny , 125 pound kid .