skinny
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English skinny (“resembling skin”), equivalent to skin + -y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phrase skin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.
Base: skin
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: skinnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: skinniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skinnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skinnies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skinnying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skinnied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skinnied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
gloss: Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: skinny flat white
...into the skinny chocolate milk?
Also bring me three quarts of ‘skinny’ milk. What the matter, Mr. Kuziavka, have you just fallen from the moon?! Don't you know about ‘skinny’ milk? It's milk, from which the fat has been removed and...
“All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on his skinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room.
People always order a "skinny" margarita without knowing exactly what that means for the ingredients. Skinny means the cocktail has a natural sweetener like lime juice or agave nectar, and none of that slushy, syrupy sweet-and-sour mix.
gloss: Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
pos: adj
examples: Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.
We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.
When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.
with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool
She used to swim "skinny" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.
gloss: Tight-fitting.
pos: adj
examples: skinny jeans
gloss: Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).
pos: adj
gloss: The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.
gloss: A state of nakedness; nudity.
pos: noun
examples: Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in the skinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine
"Nobody would bother peeking these days," she said ruefully, "in bathing suits or in the skinny."
gloss: A low-fat serving of coffee.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A skinny being.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: "Either a skinny had judged (correctly) that it was worth one of their buildings to try for one of us, or one of my own mates was getting mighty careless with fireworks" .."A congregation in church — a skinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters. All I knew was that it was a very big room filled with more skinnies than I wanted to see in my whole life."
gloss: An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.
pos: noun
gloss: To reduce or cut down.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down.
By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully) skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left).
Said one judge: "What is [Chapter 22] other than the process of skinnying the company down? Are there some inefficiencies in that? If so, they can be absorbed by the economy and the country."
Derived words: skinnily
skinniness
skinny as a rail
skinny bitch
skinny-dip
skinny dip
skinny dipper
skinny-dipper
skinny-dipping
skinny drink of water
skinny fat
skinnyish
skinny jab
skinny legend
skinny Liz
skinny malink
skinny-malinky
skinny Minnie
skinny mirror
skinnyscraper
skinny shaming
superskinny
unskinny
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