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Definition of Scrawny
1. Adjective. Being very thin. "A long scrawny neck"
Similar to: Lean, Thin
Derivative terms: Boniness, Scrag, Scrawniness, Skinniness
2. Adjective. Inferior in size or quality. "Old stunted thorn trees"
Similar to: Inferior
Derivative terms: Scrawniness, Scrubbiness, Stuntedness
Definition of Scrawny
1. a. Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
Definition of Scrawny
1. Adjective. Thin, malnourished and weak. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scrawny
1. extremely thin [adj -NIER, -NIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrawny
Literary usage of Scrawny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secrets of Specialists by Alfred Dale Covey (1903)
"Many women go through life with scrawny figures which are a source of constant
mortification to them, when a little advice and proper exercise would modify ..."
2. Johnson's Therapeutic Key by Isaac D Johnson (1920)
"*In thin, feeble, scrawny females, or women who have borne many children; feels
cold, but does not wish :•) be covered. ..."
3. Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the by William H. Burt (1896)
"G. "Suppression of the menses, in thin, scrawny married women, who suffer much
at the menstrual nisus, with continual, long- lasting, forcing pain in the ..."
4. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms by Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1859)
"scrawny. Whence this word comes, I have no idea. ... scrawny may be a corruption
of this, and both may come from the Dutch schraal, lean, slender. ..."
5. Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar by Marshall Brown (1899)
"Picket, he's fat, and his wife she fat too, and so dey horses keeps fat, of
course; and you know, old massa, you's po' and scrawny, and ol' missus, ..."
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