skinny
adjective
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L327880 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪni/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.
- Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
“Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender”
- Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.
“skinny flat white”
“...into the skinny chocolate milk?”
- Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
“Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.”
“We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.”
- Tight-fitting.
“skinny jeans”
- Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).
noun
Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.
- The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
“She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.”
- A state of nakedness; nudity.
“Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in the skinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine”
“"Nobody would bother peeking these days," she said ruefully, "in bathing suits or in the skinny."”
- A low-fat serving of coffee.
- A skinny being.
“"Either a skinny had judged (correctly) that it was worth one of their buildings to try for one of us, or one of my own mates was getting mighty careless with fireworks" .."A congregation in church — a skinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters. All I knew was that it was a very big room filled with more skinnies than I wanted to see in my whole life."”
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.
- To reduce or cut down.
“Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down.”
“By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully) skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left).”