thin person


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Noun1.thin person - a person who is unusually thin and scrawnythin person - a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
spindlelegs, spindleshanks - a thin person with long thin legs
butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly - a rotund individual
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References in classic literature ?
The chevalier, now fifty-eight years of age, owned to only fifty; and he might well allow himself that innocent deception, for, among the other advantages granted to fair thin persons, he managed to preserve the still youthful figure which saves men as well as women from an appearance of old age.
One of the biggest challenges remains the assumption a thin person is somehow healthier than a fat person.
In one episode, Eddie rants about her weight, shouting: "Inside of me is a thin person just screaming to get out." To which Mother deadpans: "Just the one, dear?" 1971 up je t'aime June and comedian Frankie Howerd did a spoof version of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's erotic song Je t'aime.
In one episode Eddie is ranting about her struggles with her weight, shouting: "Inside of me is a thin person just screaming to get out." To which Mother dead-panned: "Just the One Dear?".
He attached a video clip in which Jennifer's chubby character Edina complains she has a thin person inside her "just screaming to get out".
thick as a brick a dangerously thin person (a thick joke)
That's how much work I've had to put in to get a fraction of the attention that a conventionally attractive thin person is going to get.
It's an age-old tabloid ploy, down there with taking a thin person who was once very fat, cajoling him into wearing a pair of old trousers and tugging the waistband.
There is an assumption that if the obese would just eat and exercise the way a thin person does, then they would be thin.
"You're also more likely to feel and be aware of glands going up and down if you're a very thin person, particularly in the neck area, where it's easy for glands to stand out against the muscle and skin," adds Matthew.
"Our group has shown in functional imaging that it takes about 12 minutes for a thin person's brain to get the food signal.