(disapproving) (of people or animals) very thin in a way that is not attractive:
He had long scrawny fingers. * There were a few scrawny chickens in the yard.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scrawny is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scrawny a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scrawny is tagged as adjective.
Does scrawny appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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