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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. inferior in size or quality;
- Example: "scrawny cattle"
- Example: "scrubby cut-over pine"
- Example: "old stunted thorn trees"
[syn: scrawny, scrubby, stunted]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Scrawny \Scraw"ny\ (skr[add]"n[y^]), a. [Cf. Scrannel.]
   Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

scrawny
    adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a
           long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny,
           skinny, underweight, weedy]
    2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-
       over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: scrawny,
       scrubby, stunted]