scranny

English

Etymology

See scrannel.

Adjective

scranny (comparative scrannier, superlative scranniest)

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) scrawny
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Rat.
     I’ll slily seize and
     Let blood from her weasand,—
     Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,
     With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.

   • 1901, New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 24, page 177:

     Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain.

   • 1914, Oral Hygiene - Volume 4, page 11:

     “Well, in the first place," I explained the little lady, "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong."

   • 2001, Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, John Rickman, Russian Culture, →ISBN, page 38:

     Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;

   • 2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, →ISBN, page 31:

     'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?"

References

• “scranny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.