Associations to the word «Scrawny»

Wiktionary

SCRAWNY, adjective. Thin, malnourished and weak.

Dictionary definition

SCRAWNY, adjective. Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck".
SCRAWNY, adjective. Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope