dictionary definitions for "skinny"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  skinny
      adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a
             long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny,
             skinny, underweight, weedy]
      2: of or relating to or resembling skin
      3: fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting
         clothes" [syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, {tight
         fitting}, tightly fitting, skinny]
      4: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing
         administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a
         penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing,
         close, near, penny-pinching, skinny]
      n 1: confidential information about a topic or person; "he
           wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Skinny \Skin"ny\, a.
     Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
     "Her skinny lips." --Shak.
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           He holds him with a skinny hand.         --Coleridge.
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