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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. confidential information about a topic or person;
- Example: "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"


ADJECTIVE (4)

1. being very thin;
- Example: "a child with skinny freckled legs"
- Example: "a long scrawny neck"
[syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy]

2. of or relating to or resembling skin;

3. fitting snugly;
- Example: "a tightly-fitting cover"
- Example: "tight-fitting clothes"
[syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny]

4. giving or spending with reluctance;
- Example: "our cheeseparing administration"
- Example: "very close (or near) with his money"
- Example: "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
[syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Skinny \Skin"ny\, a. Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He holds him with a skinny hand. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

skinny adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy] 2: of or relating to or resembling skin 3: fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes" [syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny] 4: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny] n 1: confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "skinny": angular, bony, cortical, cutaneous, dermal, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, emaciated, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, furry, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, half-starved, hypodermal, hypodermic, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skeletal, skin-deep, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, subcutaneous, testaceous, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weedy