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Skinny   /skˈɪni/   Listen
Skinny

adjective
1.
Being very thin.  Synonyms: boney, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy.  "A long scrawny neck"
2.
Of or relating to or resembling skin.
3.
Fitting snugly.  Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting.  "Tight-fitting clothes"
4.
Giving or spending with reluctance.  Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching.  "Very close (or near) with his money" , "A penny-pinching miserly old man"
noun
1.
Confidential information about a topic or person.



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"Skinny" Quotes from Famous Books



... evening of life with the vampires circling about you and be forced to confess, "I have not found rest!" You may retire from business and say, "I will spend my declining years in peace," but as the sun goes down the bats come out and flap the black skinny wings of the sins of other days in your affrighted face. If you are a student you may drop your books like Dr. Faust and hurry to the country, but the imp of restlessness will dog your steps and snare your pathway and you will carry ...
— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees
... I had to pay for he, an' he give'd the money back to she 'cause her wer a nice li'I thing—bit skinny though. 'Twer a maazed muddle like. I ought to ha' had thic ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... skinny building that stands on one leg like a stork and blinks down disdainfully from its thousand windows on ordinary ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... prosecutor, who had sat with shoulders hunched up, his wings pulled in, rose to his feet with the aid of a chair-back, stretched his long arms above his head, and then, lowering one hand level with the girl's face, said, as he thrust one sharp, skinny ...
— The Underdog • F. Hopkinson Smith
... politeness on their part, requested to join in the bath. Being a novice at Japanese experiences, and as their request was so pressing, I thanked them and accepted; whereupon, I was buoyantly led to the bath. Oh what a sight! Three skinny old women, "disgraces," I may almost call them, for certainly they could not be classified under the designation of "graces," were sitting in a row with steaming water up to their necks, undergoing the process of being boiled. What! thought I, panic-stricken—am ...
— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor


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