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skin·ny

 (skĭn′ē)
adj. skin·ni·er, skin·ni·est
1.
a. Having very little bodily flesh or fat, often unattractively so; very thin. See Synonyms at lean2.
b. Having little width; narrow: a skinny island.
2. Of, relating to, or resembling skin.
n. Slang
Inside information; the real facts: learned the skinny on their falling-out.

skin′ni·ness n.
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skinny

(ˈskɪnɪ)
adj, -nier or -niest
1. lacking in flesh; thin
2. consisting of or resembling skin
ˈskinniness n
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skin•ny

(ˈskɪn i)

adj. -ni•er, -ni•est,
n. adj.
1. very lean or thin; emaciated.
2. of or like skin.
3. unusually low or reduced; meager; minimal: skinny profits.
4. (of an object) narrow or slender: a skinny bed.
n.
5. Slang.
a. accurate information; data; facts.
b. news, esp. if confidential; gossip.
[1565–75]
skin′ni•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.skinny - confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
info, information - a message received and understood
Adj.1.skinny - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
2.skinny - of or relating to or resembling skin
3.skinny - fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"
tight - closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest"
4.skinny - giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
stingy, ungenerous - unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
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skinny

adjective thin, lean, scrawny, skeletal, emaciated, twiggy, undernourished, skin-and-bone (informal), scraggy, macilent (rare) He was quite a skinny little boy.
fat, plump, stout, heavy, obese, fleshy, beefy (informal), tubby, portly, podgy, broad in the beam (informal)
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skinny

adjective
Having little flesh or fat on the body:
Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail.
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Translations
hubený
mager
erittäin laihalaihaluiseva
mršav
magur, grindhoraîur
やせこけた
말라빠진
maudymasis nusirengus nuogai
kaulainsvājš
chudychudachude
mršavsuh
smal
ผอมมาก
çiroz gibiçok zayıfkürdan gibisıska
gầy nhom

skinny

[ˈskɪnɪ] ADJ (skinnier (compar) (skinniest (superl))) → flaco
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

skinny

[ˈskɪni] adj [person, arms, legs] → maigreskinny-dipping [ˈskɪnidɪpɪŋ] nbaignade f à poil ; (at night)bain m de minuit
to go skinny-dipping → se baigner à poil ; (at night)prendre un bain de minuitskinny-rib sweater npull-chaussette m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

skinny

adj (+er) (inf) person, legs, armsdünn; sweatereng anliegend attr, → hauteng
n (US inf: = piece of information) → vertrauliche Information, Insider-Information f; that’s the skinny (on that)das ist der Witz daran (inf), → das ist genau der Punkt

skinny

:
skinny-dip
vi (inf)nackt baden
skinny dipping
n (inf)Nacktbaden nt; to go skinnynackt baden
skinny-rib
adjRippen-; skinny sweaterRippenpullover m
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skinny

[ˈskɪnɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (usu pej) (person) → magro/a, gracile, mingherlino/a; (jumper) → striminzito/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

skinny

(ˈskini) adjective
very thin. Most fat girls long to be skinny.
ˈskinniness noun
ˈskinny-dipping noun
(slang). go skinny-dipping to swim naked.
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skinny

هَزِيلُ الـجِّسْمِ hubený mager dünn ισχνός flaco erittäin laiha maigre mršav magro やせこけた 말라빠진 broodmager tynn chudy magrelo, magricela тощий smal ผอมมาก kürdan gibi gầy nhom 极瘦的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

skinny

a. flaco-a, delgado-a, descarnado-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
"Just imagine how you would feel if somebody told you to your face that you were skinny and ugly," pleaded Anne tearfully.
He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he.
So I went and asked my aunt how she felt--you remember her?--the long, piebald rat, rather skinny, who came to see you in Puddleby last Spring with jaundice?
Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam.
"Look here, Skinny Philander," he said, in belligerent tones, "if you are lookin' for a scrap, peel off your coat and come on down on the ground, and I'll punch your head just as I did sixty years ago in the alley back of Porky Evans' barn."
For a good many years I drew a public cab in Chicago, and that's enough to make anyone skinny."
Many a skinny old being in our neighborhood was the happier and the restfuler for her coming.
The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught had produced and that I carried him more lightly than usual, so he stretched out his skinny hand and seizing the gourd first tasted its contents cautiously, then drained them to the very last drop.
He recounted Vatel's expedition to La Fontaine, related the history of Menneville and the skinny fowl to Pellisson, in such a manner that all the table heard it.
But he's going to see a skinny old maid in Millersville now, and I guess she'll take him fast enough.
Then suddenly it projected a skinny claw armed with nails nearly an inch long, and laying it on the shoulder of Twala the king, began to speak in a thin and piercing voice--
"And if he wished them a skinny fowl," said Celia, "that would not be nice.