dictionary definitions for "skinny"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  skinny
      adj : having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled
            legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy,
            scrawny, underweight, weedy]
      n : 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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