Scrawny

Definition: Scrawny

Scrawny

Adjective

1. Having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".

2. Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scrawny" was first used: 1833. (references)

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

Synonyms: Scrawny

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Crosswords: Scrawny

All right, you scrawny beanpoles: becoming a cop is _not_ something that happens overnight (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I've heard enough of this scrawny thief (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

What do you think I am, you scrawny earthbag (Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone; writing credit: Len Blum; Daniel Goldberg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Little Golden Book Classics: Three Best-Loved Tales: Thumbelina/Tawny Scrawny Lion/the Poky Little Pony/3 Books in 1 (Little Golden Book Classic Co) (reference)

• Scrawny, the Classroom Duck (reference)

• Tawny Scrawny Lion (reference)

• Tawny Scrawny Lion and the Clever Monkey (reference)

• Tawny Scrawny Lion Saves/Day L (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tawny Scrawny Lions Jungle Tales (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ahead of him, beside the road, a scrawny, dusty willow tree cast a speckled shade

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "scrawny": scrawny-faced, scrawny-necked.

Albanian

i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, 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, scrannel, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏أعجف (lean). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кокалест (angular, gnarled, osseous, raw boned, scraggy), мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, skinny, thin, weedy). (various references)

Czech

vychrtlý (emaciated, gaunt, haggard). (various references)

Farsi 

لاغرواستخوانی . (various references)

Finnish

luiseva (bony). (various references)

French

maigre (scant, scanty), efflanqué (scraggy), décharné (scraggy). (various references)

German

dürr (arid, aridly, barren, dry, lank, scraggy, seares, searly, skinny, withered), schlank (neat, slender, slenderly, slim, slimly, svelte). (various references)

Greek 

ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, skinny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), λιπόσαρκοσ (gaunt). (various references)

Hebrew 

רז�" מא�". (various references)

Hungarian

vézna (lean, meager, meagre, peaky, puny, scraggy, thin), ványadt. (various references)

Indonesian

kurus-kering. (various references)

Italian

snello (agile, easy, flowing, slender, slim, svelte), ossuto (angular, bony), magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, skimmed, skimpy, skinny, slight, slim, thin, thinly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痩せ馬 (scrawny horse), 痩せっぽち (bag of bones, scarecrow, scrawny person, skinny person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やせうま (scrawny horse), やせっぽち (bag of bones, scarecrow, scrawny person, skinny person). (various references)

Pig Latin

awnyscray.(various references)

Portuguese

rugoso (furrowed, gnarled, gnarly, hackly, joggly, lumpy, ridged, ridgy, rough, rugged, rugous, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, wrinkly), que só tem ossos (scraggy), magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), magricela (scrag, scraggy, weed, weedy), descarnado (gaunt, meager, meagre, raw-boned, scraggy, skinny), áspero (abrupt, acerb, bluff, coarse, cornered, harsh, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scratchy, seamy, severe). (various references)

Romanian

slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), sfrijit (emaciated, gaunt, lean, thin, wizened), jigãrit (gaunt, skinny, weedy). (various references)

Russian 

костлявый (bony, raw boned, rawboned). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mršav (emaciated, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrannel, skinny, thin), koščat (bony, gaunt, osseous, raw boned, rawboned). (various references)

Spanish

huesudo (big-boned, bony, raw boned), flacucho, flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, skinny, thin, weakly, weakness), esbelto (chic, jimp, neat, slender, slim, svelte). (various references)

Swedish

tanig (scraggy, thin), mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, parsimonious, peaked, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, skinny, spare, thin), benig (bony, puzzling, scraggy, skinny). (various references)

Turkish

sıska (gaunt, lank, puny, rickety, scraggy, skinny, spare, weedy), cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, sickly, skinny, spindling, spindly, undersized, weak). (various references)

Turkmen 

hor (lean, thin), зepiksi (skin-and-bones). (various references)

Ukrainian

сухорлявий (bony), кістлявий (knuckled, raw boned). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khẳng khiu (meager, meagre, scraggy). (various references)

Misspellings

"Scrawny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: crawny, Scawn, schrawny, scranny, scrauny, scrawly, scrawney. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: carns, carny, craws, cyans, narcs, scary, warns, yarns, yawns.

-3 letters: arcs, awns, awny, awry, cans, carn, cars, caws, cays, craw, cyan, narc, nary, nays, racy, raws, rays, ryas, sawn, scan, scar, scry, snaw, swan, sway, sync, wans, wany, warn, wars, wary, ways, wyns, yarn, yawn, yaws.

-4 letters: any, arc, ars, awn, ays, can.

+3 letters: cornerways, fancyworks.

+5 letters: entranceways.