Skinny

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Skinny \Skin"ny\, a.
     Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
     "Her skinny lips." --Shak.
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           He holds him with a skinny hand.         --Coleridge.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  skinny
       adj : having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled
             legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: {scraggy}, {scrawny},
              {underweight}, {weedy}]
       n : confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted
           the inside skinny on the new partner"
       [also: {skinniest}, {skinnier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "skinny":
     angular, bony, cortical, cutaneous, dermal, dermic, ecderonic,
     ectodermal, ectodermic, emaciated, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal,
     epidermal, epidermic, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, furry,
     gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, half-starved, hypodermal,
     hypodermic, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager,
     pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skeletal, skin-deep,
     spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, subcutaneous, testaceous, thin,
     thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undernourished, undersized,
     underweight, wasted, weedy