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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SKIN'NY, a. Consisting of skin, or of skin only; wanting flesh.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (skinnier; -est) Date: 1573 1. resembling skin ; membranous 2. a. lacking sufficient flesh ; very thin ; emaciated b. lacking usual or desirable bulk, quantity, qualities, or significance Synonyms: see lean • skinniness noun II. noun Etymology: perhaps from ¹skin + ⁴-y Date: 1938 slang inside information ; dope <the straight skinny on what's going on — John Geary>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (skinnier, skinniest) 1 thin or emaciated. 2 (of clothing) tight-fitting. 3 made of or like skin. Phrases and idioms: skinny-dipping esp. US colloq. bathing in the nude. Derivatives: skinniness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(skinnier, skinniest) A skinny person is extremely thin, often in a way that you find unattractive. (INFORMAL) He was quite a skinny little boy... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Lean, poor, thin, lank, shrunk, emaciated, shrivelled.

Moby Thesaurus

angular, bony, cortical, cutaneous, dermal, dermic, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, emaciated, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, furry, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, half-starved, hypodermal, hypodermic, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skeletal, skin-deep, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, subcutaneous, testaceous, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undernourished, undersized, underweight, wasted, weedy