scrannel
11scrannel — a lean maigre person. Lane …
12Scranny — Scran ny, a. [See {Scrannel}.] Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster] …
13scraw|ny — «SKR nee», adjective, ni|er, ni|est. Informal. lean; thin; skinny: »Turkeys have scrawny necks. ╂[American English, perhaps variant of dialectal scranny. Compare etym. under …
14Scrawny — Scraw ny, a. [Cf. {Scrannel}.] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny. [1913 Webster] …
15John Gawsworth — (June 29 1912 September 23 1970), a pseudonym of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (also referred to as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He also used the pseudonym… …
16Lycidas — is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy, first appearing in a 1638 collection of elegies entitled Justa Edouardo King Naufrago dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a collegemate of Milton s at Cambridge who had been… …
17Unimportance — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Unimportance >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unimportance unimportance insignificance nothingness immateriality GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 triviality triviality levity frivolity Sgm: N 2 paltriness paltriness …
18scrawny — adjective (scrawnier, scrawniest) unattractively thin and bony. Derivatives scrawniness noun Origin C19: var. of dialect scranny; cf. archaic scrannel weak, feeble (referring to sound) …
19scrawny — /ˈskrɔni / (say skrawnee) adjective (scrawnier, scrawniest) lean; thin; scraggy: a long scrawny neck. {variant of scranny, variant of scrannel} –scrawniness, noun …
20Scratch — [skrach] n. [altered (infl. by SCRATCH) < ME skratte < ON skratti, monster, sorcerer, akin to OHG scraz, goblin < IE base * (s)ker , to shrink > SCRANNEL] [sometimes s ] the Devil: usually Old Scratch …
