Skinny

Definition: Skinny

Skinny

Adjective

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

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

Date "skinny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Skinny

Covering

Adjective: covering; Verb: superimposed, overlaid, plated; Verb: cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered; Verb: imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate.

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: Skinny

Skinny guys fight 'til they're burger (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

So far, the first film was a very good, professional piece of skinny like it was done in Hollywood (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

And here I just thought he was just really skinny (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster)

Get me some narco skinny. I want to do an all-hophead issue (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

I mean, why does the fat one always have to be so mean to the skinny one (Ghost World; writing credit: Daniel Clowes)

He's got skinny legs (Skinny Legs; performing artist: Lyle Lovett)

Skinny legs like I always wanted (Skinny Legs; performing artist: Lyle Lovett)

You'd love me if I were as skinny as him (Skinny Legs; performing artist: Lyle Lovett)

School girl skinny with a classy kinda sassy ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one ("Everyday People"; performing artist: Sly & The Family Stone)

Skinny Minnie (1967)

Get Skinny (2002)

Skinny Puppy: Ain't It Dead Yet? (Live) (1989)

Skinny Legs (performing artist: Lyle Lovett)

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

Books

• If How To's Were Enough, We Would All Be Skinny, Rich and Happy (reference)

• Skinny Annie Blues (reference)

• Skinny Comfort Foods (Skinny Cookbooks Series) (reference)

• Skinny Soups (Skinny Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Skinny Dip With Don Tiki (reference)

• Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Le Creuset 10-1/4-Inch Skinny Round Grill, Red (reference)

• Le Creuset 10-Inch Skinny Round Grill, Flame (reference)

• Skinny Mini 2-Step Stool (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Giant pig with mustache and cigar sitting on money in "wet territory" in contrast to a skinny "blind pig" in a "dry county". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

A pale skinny little boy crept like an animal through the reeds and slipped off his clothes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Expressions using "skinny": skinny dip ♦ tall and skinny ♦ the skinny. Additional references.

Beginning with "skinny": skinny-bits, skinny-dip, skinny-dipping, skinny-gutted, skinny-rib, skinny-rib jumper, skinny-ribbed.

Afrikaans

skraal (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, slim, thin), maer (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, thin). (various references)

Albanian

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

Arabic 

‏مهزول (emaciated, wasted), ‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏نحيل (bony, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, slender, slight, slim, small, svelte, thin), ‏نحيف (scraggy), ‏ضامر (atrophied, lank, lean, raw boned, scraggy, slender), ‏جلدي (coriaceous, cutaneous, dermal, leathern), ‏جلداني (coriaceous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), оскъден (beggarly, exiguous, insufficient, jejune, lean, meager, meagre, penurious, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, skimpy, spare, sparing, starveling, stingy, thin, tight), мършав (fleshless, gaunt, lank, meager, meagre, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, thin, weedy), много слаб (sad, terrible). (various references)

Chinese 

� (sliced meat), 皮包骨头. (various references)

Czech

vyhublý (angular, bony, gaunt), velmi štíhlý, tenký (fine, slim, small, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Danish

tynd (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, thin), mager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, thin). (various references)

Dutch

sprietig (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, thin), schraal (barren, coarse, gaunt, in short supply, infertile, lean, meager, rough, scanty, scarce, skimpy, slender, thin), mager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, thin). (various references)

Esperanto

magra (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, thin). (various references)

Faeroese

rak (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, thin), fátækur (gaunt, lean, meager, miserable, poor, skimpy, thin). (various references)

Farsi 

پوستی (Cutaneous, Pelting), پوست واستخوان , لاغر (Angular, Gaunt, Lean, Scraggy, Scrannel, Slight, Slim, Slink, Spare, Thin, Toom, Wizen). (various references)

French

maigre (skimp, skimpy). (various references)

Frisian

meager (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, thin). (various references)

German

mager (emaciated, fatless, gaunt, hungry, infertile, lank, lean, leanly, low fat, meager, meagre, poor, rawboned, scant, scanty, skimpy, slender, thin, weak). (various references)

Greek 

κοκαλιάρησ (scraggy), κοκαλιάρης, ισχνόσ (gaunt, lank, lean, meager, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scraggly, scrawny, slab-sided, slender, slim, spare, thin), τσιγκούνης (mean). (various references)

Hebrew 

כחוש (gaunt, haggard, lean, macilent, peaky, scraggy, spare, thin), �"ל בשר, רז�" (lean, macilent, meagre, peak, peaky, slender, slim, spare, thin), צ� ום (lean, scraggy, spare, spindly, thin). (various references)

Hungarian

sovány (bare-boned, extenuate, gaunt, haggard, hungry, lean, meager, meagre, peaky, scraggy, scrawny, thin, underweight, wispy), csontos (boned, bony, cragged). (various references)

Indonesian

kurus (gaunt, lean, meagre, thin, withered), kikir (avarice, avaricious, closefisted, file). (various references)

Italian

magro (gaunt, lame, lean, low fat, meager, meagre, narrow, poor, scant, scraggy, scrawny, skimmed, skimpy, slight, slim, thin, thinly), secco (arid, dried, dry, offhand, offhanded, sharp, short, thin, withered). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スキー�"��"� (scan, Scan Talk, scandal, scandalous, scanner, scanning, scanties, scat, schizo, ski outfit, skid row, skim milk, skip, skipper, skit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スキニー . (various references)

Korean 

여위�". (various references)

Manx

thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, shallow, sharp face, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), shang (emaciated, gaunt, gracile, lank, lanky, lean, slender, slight, slim, sylph-like, thin, thin in build, willowy), craueagh (bony, osseous, scraggy), craitnagh (cutaneous, skinlike, webbed), boght (deprived, grotty, miserable, pauper, poor, shabby, shoddy). (various references)

Papiamen

flaku (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, slim, thin), flako (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, slim, thin), delegá (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, slender, slim, thin). (various references)

Pig Latin

innyskay.(various references)

Portuguese

magro (angular, bony, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lank, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, slender, thin). (various references)

Romanian

subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), 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, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), ogârjit (emaciated, scraggy), noduros (gnarled, gnarly, knaggy, knarred, knobbed, knobbly, knobby, knotty, nodose, nodous), jigãrit (gaunt, scrawny, weedy), costeliv (emaciated, gaunt, meager, meagre, scraggy). (various references)

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

mršav (emaciated, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, thin). (various references)

Spanish

flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, thin, weakly, weakness), enjuto (dried up, dry, fatless, lean, shrivelled up, spare). (various references)

Sranan

mangri (gaunt, lean, meager, skimpy, thin). (various references)

Swedish

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

Turkish

sıska (gaunt, lank, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, spare, weedy), eli sıkı (close-fisted, hard-fisted, mean, near, shabby, tight, tight-fisted), derimsi, cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), cılız (fatless, feeble, of poor physique, puny, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, sickly, spindling, spindly, undersized, weak), bir deri bir kemik (emaciated, nothing but skin and bones, rawboned, scraggy, starveling), çok zayıf. (various references)

Turkmen 

igli (thin), arryk. (various references)

Ukrainian

схожий на плівку, худючий, шкіряний (coriaceous, leathern). (various references)

Vietnamese 

gầy nhom. (various references)

macilentus, macresco, petilus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Skinny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kinny, sceny, scinn, sciny, Scunny, sinni, sinny, skanky, skina, skinn, skinne, skinney, Skynyrd, Swinney. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: inks, inky, inns, kins, sink, skin, yins.

-3 letters: ink, inn, ins, kin, sin, ski, sky, syn, yin.

-4 letters: in, is, si.

+2 letters: enskying.

+3 letters: kyanising.

+4 letters: ankylosing, cytokinins, kanamycins, sneakingly, stinkingly.

+5 letters: bradykinins, monkeyshine, sickeningly.