Scrawny Definition & Meaning

scrawny
adjective
  1. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
  2. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut- over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

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