SKINNY


Meaning of SKINNY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

too

The animals must not be diseased, too old or too skinny .

They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.

I was too skinny to wear the smallest weight belt.

■ NOUN

leg

This was Olga - even to her skinny legs !

Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.

man

Here was this skinny man , unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.

I stopped, and the skinny man heard me and turned, Unmistakable.

He looked up, expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps.

A tall, skinny man , with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear.

A skinny man who looked as if he didn't sleep nights.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

skinny little kids

a skinny kid with glasses

I was really skinny when I was a teenager.

Jacob placed his arm around her skinny shoulders.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By the time I'd recovered I was skinnier than ever, having been rationed to an orange a day.

Even in a bulky warm-up suit, sitting hunched over the handlebars, she looks skinny .

He had startlingly blue eyes and dark tumbling curls over his forehead; a narrow face; a skinny body.

I would be a skinny person.

They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.

They strain every muscle as they pedal; their bodies glisten with sweat; all are skinny , some wasted.

Think skinny asparagus spears with broccoli tops.

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