Apedia

Scrawny Describe Thin Taller Insulting Weak Surprised Lifting

Front scrawny
Back being very thin

Scrawny is an insulting way to describe someone who's very thin and weak. You might be surprised by how lifting weights transformed your scrawny teammate to a muscular athlete by the end of the season.

The adjective scrawny can describe a small, underweight body but it can also describe anything that's not very big or well-made — a scrawny tree that never gets any taller or fuller or a scrawny audience that disappoints the band because they were expecting a sold-out concert. Scrawny may have come from the Old Norse word skraelna, to shrivel.


But the man they found bound hand and foot to the holdfast wall awaiting the king's justice was old and scrawny, not much taller than Robb.

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Cast visual appearance group actors make film stage

Previous card: Sire father offspring noun پدر dad pater abba

Up to card list: HBO Game Of Thrones Difficult Words en-fa (English to Farsi)