scrawny

English

Alternative forms

• scranny (dialectal)

Etymology

A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) +‎ -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).

Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹɔːni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹɔni/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹɑni/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːni

Adjective

scrawny (comparative scrawnier, superlative scrawniest)

1. Thin, malnourished, and weak.
   • 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 498:

     “Tell him, in these words, that I will have his scrawny bones before me now. Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children. Go.”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:scrawny

Derived terms

• scrawnily
• scrawniness
• scrawny drink of water

 

Related terms

• scran

Translations

thin, malnourished and weak

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: мършав (bg) (mǎršav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瘦弱 (zh) (shòuruò), 消瘦 (zh) (xiāoshòu)

• Czech: vychrtlý (cs)
• Danish: mager
• Dutch: mager (nl), ondervoed (nl), zwak (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: luiseva (fi), hintelä (fi), hontelo (fi)
• French: famélique (fr), maigrichon (fr)
• German: dürr (de), abgemagert (de)
• Greek: αχαμνός (el) (achamnós)
• Hungarian: vézna (hu), cingár (hu), vékonydongájú (hu), vékonypénzű (hu), csontos (hu), csontsovány, ványadt (hu), nyiszlett (hu)
• Italian: macilento (it), emaciato (it)
• Korean: 앙상하다 (ko) (angsanghada)
• Macedonian: мр́шав (mŕšav), сув (suv), и́сушен (ísušen)
• Norwegian: tynn (no), radmager, skrinn/skrant, skranglet
• Ottoman Turkish: ضعیف (zaʼif)
• Polish: wychudzony (pl)
• Portuguese: magrelo, magricela (pt)
• Russian: то́щий (ru) (tóščij), костля́вый (ru) (kostljávyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: žgoljav (sh)
• Spanish: enjuto (es), magro (es), escuálido (es), escuchimizado, esmirriado (es), tirillas (es), canijo (es), enclenque (es), endeble (es), flacucho (es), pishque (Guatemala)
• Swedish: mager (sv), tanig (sv), skranglig (sv), skraltig (sv), spinkig (sv)
• Turkish: cılız (tr), sıska (tr)
• Ukrainian: худорлявий m (xudorljavyj), кістлявий m (kistljavyj)