Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - scrawny
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(scrawnier, scrawniest) If you describe a person or animal as scrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin. ...a scrawny woman with dyed black hair... ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective (scrawnier; -est) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1833 exceptionally thin and slight or meager in body or size ~ scrub cattle Synonyms: see lean • scrawniness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (scrawnier, scrawniest) lean, scraggy. Derivatives scrawniness n. Etymology: var. of dial. scranny: cf. archaic scrannel (of sound) weak, feeble ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1833, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), of uncertain origin, perhaps from O.N. skrжlna "to shrivel." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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