skinny en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈskɪni/
Etymology
From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.
Meanings
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(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
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(informal) Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.
skinny flat white
...into the skinny chocolate milk?
1974, National Fruit & Syrup Manufacturers Assn, Dairy & ice cream field, Volume 157, Issues 1-6 (cooking), page 45:People always order a "skinny" margarita without knowing exactly what that means for the ingredients. Skinny means the cocktail has a natural sweetener like lime juice or agave nectar, and none of that slushy, syrupy sweet-and-sour mix.
2019, Fancy AF Cocktails:Also bring me three quarts of ‘skinny’ milk. What the matter, Mr. Kuziavka, have you just fallen from the moon?! Don't you know about ‘skinny’ milk? It's milk, from which the fat has been removed and...
1982, Mykola Ponedilok, Funny tears: short stories (history), page 186:“All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on his skinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room.
2008, Sydney Bauer, Undertow (fiction), →ISBN, page 387:
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Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
She used to swim "skinny" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.
2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page 220:Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.
1972, Robert Woodruff Anderson, Solitaire: Double solitaire, page 53:with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool
2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Governor's Choice, page 20:We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.
2000, Linda Rogers, Say my name: the memoirs of Charlie Louie, page 25:When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.
1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A singular passion: a novel, page 200:
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(of clothing) Tight-fitting.
skinny jeans
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| skinnier | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| skinniest | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
skinny malink · skinny diving · skinny-dip · skinny as a rail · skinny Minnie · skinny mirror · skinny drink of water · skinny bitch · skinny Liz · skinny jab · skinnyscraper · skinny fat · skinny-dipping · skinny shaming · skinny legend · skinny-dipper · skinny dip · unskinny · skinny-malinky · skinny dipper · skinnily · superskinny · skinniness · skinnyish
Synonyms
Translations (105)
yue 瘦 (thin) · tyz ảy (thin) · ca magre (thin) · pt magro (thin) · vi ốm (thin) · mi whīroki (thin) · fa لاغر (thin) · ja やせた (thin) · az arıq (thin) · mk мршав (thin) · mi kōhoi (thin) · la macer (thin) · es flaco (thin) · it scheletrico (thin) · ast flacu (thin) · es güin (thin) · jv gering (thin) · pdt hollrigjich (thin) · pdt denn (thin) · es raquítico (thin) · es enjuto (thin) · mi tūai (thin) · it magro (thin) · jv kera (thin) · ru то́щий (thin) · ro slab (thin) · sh mršav (thin) · bg мъ́ршав (thin) · kea mógre (thin) · eo magra (thin) · mi tūpuhi (thin) · it macilento (thin) · ko 마른 (thin) · km ស្គម (thin) · nb mager (thin) · km ស្គមស្គាំង (thin) · ur پتلا (thin) · cmn 皮包骨頭 /皮包骨头 (thin) · ota ضعیف (thin) · it smilzo (thin) · cmn 瘦 (thin) · lou mèg (thin) · fr maigre (thin) · it secco (thin) · jv kuru (thin) · it scarnito (thin) · jv garing (thin) · it tutta pelle (thin) · uk худи́й (thin) · it pelle e ossa (thin) · vi ròm (thin) · it emaciato (thin) · hi पतला (thin) · ja やせこけた (thin) · fr maigrelet (thin) · cmn 枯瘦 (thin) · fi laiha (thin) · be худы́ (thin) · yi מאָגער (thin) · fi luiseva (thin) · ja 骨と皮ばかりの (thin) · id kurus (thin) · mi tūpuhipuhi (thin) · ota نازك (thin) · sk chudý (thin) · el ισχνός (thin) · ang mæġer (thin) · th ผอม (thin) · la gracilis (thin) · sl suh (thin) · qu raphi (thin) · mi pakarea (thin) · ko 빼빼한 (thin) · lo ຈ່ອຍ (thin) · vi còm (thin) · sv mager (thin) · it sciupato (thin) · mi hīoi (thin) · es enlapado (thin) · pl chudy (thin) · nl mager (thin) · hu vékony (thin) · kea magru (thin) · nb skinnmager (thin) · mi hīroki (thin) · mi whīrokiroki (thin) · vi gầy (thin) · cs hubený (thin) · fr maigrichon (thin) · rup slab (thin) · lou mæg (thin) · cic chonna (thin) · he רָזֶה (thin) · oc magre (thin) · grc ἰσχνός (thin) · ar نَحِيف (thin) · sh мршав (thin) · sl shujšan (thin) · ru худо́й (thin) · chr ᎤᎴᏐᏓ (thin) · es fifiriche (thin) · de mager (thin) · it smunto (thin) · it scavato (thin) · oc magrostin (thin)