skinny

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. (informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
2. (informal) Having reduced fat or calories.
3. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
4. Tight-fitting.
5. Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)

Noun

1. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
2. A state of nakedness; nudity.
3. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
4. A skinny being.

Verb

To reduce or cut down.

Sinónimos

thin

lean

emaciated

gaunt

scrawny

meager

slim

slender

skimpy

scraggy

weak

bony

frail

lank

tight-fitting

meagre

spare

tight fitting

tightfitting

tightly fitting

underweight

lanky

underfed

rawboned

flimsy

weedy

boney

become skinny

cutaneous

be thin

penny-pinching

empty

close

near

skin and bone

small

sparse

cadaverous

cheeseparing

poor

scrubby

seedy

skeletal

skeleton

skin-tight

starved

stingy

stunted

subtle

tall

tight

tiny

useless

vampire

🧛

withered

worn

wrinkled

dried-out

scrimy

TB

become emaciated

corpselike

dermic

tuberculosis

cutaneal

be skinny

flat buttocks

very skinny

endermatic

osteal

unfattened

slab sided

bareboned

extremely thin

arranged

thib

bone

🦴

close-fitting

consumption

creased

decrepit

deflated

dermal

dry

emptied

epidermic

fatless

feeble

few

🤏

fleshless

get thin

haggard

hardfisted

hungry

in short supply

jejune

long

lose weight

mean

membranous

mingy

miserly

narrow

niggardly

peaked

penurious

pinched

poop

💩

puny

rangy

raw boned

reedy

scanty

scarce

scraggly

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈskɪni/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: skinny

In summary

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.