SCRANNEL

Definition: SCRANNEL

SCRANNEL

Adjective

1. Slight; thin; lean; poor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCRANNEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Note: Scrannel \Scran"nel\, adjective. [Compare to Scrawny.]. (references)

Unimportance

Poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible; (contempt); sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse. not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw; Noun: beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain; (useless).

Crosswords: SCRANNEL

Albanian

i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), креслив (loud, loudmouthed, pipy, squeaky), мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, weedy), писклив (piping, reedy, shrill, squeaky). (various references)

Farsi 

لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Skinny, Slight, Slim, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen). (various references)

Hungarian

gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly). (various references)

Pig Latin

annelscray.(various references)

Portuguese

fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), fanhoso, débil (broken, enervate, failing, faint, fragile, frail, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

тощий (gaunt, lank, lean, scraggy, skinny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tanak (fine, finespun, gossamer, light, liny, scone, sleazy, slender, slight, tenuous, thin, weak, wispy), mršav (emaciated, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin), škripav (creaky, grate, rasping, scratchy, squeaky). (various references)

Ukrainian

худий (angular, attenuate, emaciate, emaciated, ill-conditioned, jejune, lanky, lean, meager, meagre, skimpy, spare, spiny, thin), гугнявий (nasal), бідний (bare, barren, destitute, fortuneless, lean, necessitous, needful, needy, one horse, pauper, penurious, poor, shabby, tenuous, underprivileged). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SCRANNEL": scrannels. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cannels, canners, ensnarl, lancers, lanners, scanner.

-2 letters: caners, cannel, canner, carles, casern, cleans, clears, cranes, lacers, lancer, lances, lanner, learns, nacres, nances, rances, scaler, sclera.

-3 letters: acnes, acres, alecs, arles, caner, canes, cares, carle, carls, carns, carse, clans, clean, clear, crane, earls, earns, elans, escar, lacer, laces, lance, lanes, lares, laser, leans, learn.

+1 letter: scrannels.

+2 letters: carnelians, channelers, cornelians, olecranons, rechannels, screenland.

+3 letters: branchlines, granduncles, intercensal, screenlands, translucent.

+4 letters: centralising, conversional, counterplans, crenelations, crenulations, increasingly, intolerances, ironicalness, mononuclears, nomenclators, nonclericals, noncrushable, nonrealistic, nonspherical, ranunculuses, translucence, translucency.

+5 letters: antielectrons, bonnyclabbers, candlesnuffer, carillonneurs, concelebrants, congressional, constrainedly, containerless, crenellations, nomenclatures, nonhysterical, nonnumericals, relandscaping, scandalmonger, translucences, translucently, underclassman, underclassmen, unnecessarily.