scrawny

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”)[1].

[edit] Adjective

scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)

  1. Thin, malnourished and weak.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Translations

Thin, malnourished and weak

[edit] References

  1. ^ “scrawny” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
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