scrawny (adj.)

  1. being very thin; a child with skinny freckled legs; a long scrawny neck

    [ Syn: scraggy , boney , skinny , underweight , weedy ]

  2. inferior in size or quality; scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees

    [ Syn: scrubby , stunted ]

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