<adj.all> a child with skinny freckled legs a long scrawny neck
inferior in size or quality
<adj.all> scrawny cattle scrubby cut-over pine old stunted thorn trees
Scrawny \Scraw"ny\, a. [Cf. {Scrannel}.] Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.
The only other travelers who regularly dare this gauntlet are Pashtun-speaking tribesmen taking their scrawny camels to meat markets in Kabul.
"No lines today at the checkout," said Greta Meinischmidt, squeezing a shriveled apple, then a scrawny Cuban banana. "Very small, like our eggs.
Jagdish Rajkumar, a scrawny teen-ager, was not interested in the food.
Panamanian boxers typically are underfed and scrawny, and they usually compete in weight classes below 150 pounds.
Bobbing up and down in a gondola during a storm, she will raise her scrawny arms above her head and, in a penetrating voice, implore Casanova to transform her into a male infant.