scrawny

English

Alternative forms

• scranny (dialectal)

Etymology

A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) +‎ -y. Compare English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).

Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskrɔːni/
• IPA^(key): /ˈskrɔni/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːni

Adjective

scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)

1. Thin, malnourished and weak.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Related terms

• scran

Translations

Thin, malnourished and weak

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘦弱 (zh) (shòuruò), 消瘦 (zh) (xiāoshòu)

• Czech: vychrtlý (cs) m
• Danish: mager
• Dutch: mager (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: luiseva (fi), laiha (fi)
• French: maigrichon(ne), famélique (fr)
• German: dürr (de)
• Greek: αχαμνός (el) (achamnós)
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• Hungarian: vézna (hu)
• Italian: macilento (it), emaciato (it)
• Norwegian: tynn (no), radmager, skrinn/skrant, skranglet
• Polish: wychudzony (pl) m
• Portuguese: magrelo, magricela (pt)
• Russian: то́щий (ru) (tóščij), костля́вый (ru) (kostljávyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: žgoljav (sh)
• Spanish: enjuto (es), magro (es), escuálido, escuchimizado, esmirriado, tirillas (es)
• Swedish: mager (sv), tanig (sv), skranglig (sv), skraltig (sv), spinkig (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can