scrawny

Meaning

Thin, malnourished, and weak.

Synonyms

skinny

lean

thin

gaunt

scraggy

bony

rawboned

slim

spare

boney

weedy

scrubby

meager

cadaverous

emaciated

haggard

lank

angular

puny

slender

stunted

underweight

skeletal

pinched

scaggy

peaked

osseous

slab sided

subtle

meagre

tiny

wasted

low

fatless

skin-and-bones

corpselike

bareboned

osteal

thin and stunted

scraggly

raw boned

poor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈskɹɔːni/

Etymology

Cognate with Norwegian: skran

Cognate with English: scrannel

In summary

A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).