skin and bones

English

Alternative forms

• skin and bone

Noun

skin and bones

1. A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.

   Look at that starving dog; he's nothing more than skin and bones.

Synonyms

• bony, gaunt, lanky, scrawny, skinny

Translations

emaciated; very skinny

• Catalan: en la pell i els óssos
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 皮包骨 (pei⁴ baau¹ gwat¹)

  Hakka: 皮包骨 (phì-pâu-kut), 筋渣膜絡／筋渣膜络 (kîn-châ-mo̍k-lo̍k)

  Mandarin: 骨瘦如柴 (zh) (gǔshòurúchái), 皮包骨 (zh) (píbāogǔ)

• Finnish: luuta ja nahkaa, luuviulu (fi)
• French: (verb) n’avoir que la peau sur les os (fr), paquet d’os (fr) m
• German: Haut und Knochen (literally “skin and bone[s]”); ein Strich in der Landschaft (literally “a stroke in the landscape”)
• Hungarian: csont és bőr
• Italian: magro (it) m, smunto, tutta pelle, scarnito (it), sciupato (it), scavato (it), macilento (it), scheletrico (it), pelle e ossa, emaciato (it), secco (it), smilzo (it)
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• Japanese: (verb) 痩せこけた (やせこけた, yasekoketa)
• Latin: cutis et ossa, pellis et ossa
• Portuguese: pele e osso
• Russian: ко́жа да ко́сти (ru) (kóža da kósti), одна́ ко́жа да ко́сти (odná kóža da kósti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кост и кожа

  Roman: kost i koža

• Spanish: piel y huesos, escuchimizado
• Swedish: skinn och ben

See also

• osteocutaneous