underfleshed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

under- +‎ fleshed

Adjective[edit]

underfleshed (comparative more underfleshed, superlative most underfleshed)

  1. Lacking flesh or substance; skinny or scanty.
    • 2007 December 23, David Kirby, “Needing No Weatherman”, in New York Times[1]:
      His lines are jazzy and improvisational, as though he is trying to figure himself out on the page, and the poems themselves are skinny and underfleshed; one in this new collection is called Poem on Toilet Paper, but they all look as though they were written that way.