See scranny on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "See scrannel.", "forms": [ { "form": "scrannier", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "scranniest", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "er" }, "expansion": "scranny (comparative scrannier, superlative scranniest)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Scottish English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:", "text": "Rat.\nI’ll slily seize and\nLet blood from her weasand,—\nCreeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,\nWith my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1901, New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 24, page 177:", "text": "Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1914, Oral Hygiene - Volume 4, page 11:", "text": "“Well, in the first place,\" I explained the little lady, \"they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2001, Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, John Rickman, Russian Culture, →ISBN, page 38:", "text": "Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, →ISBN, page 31:", "text": "'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?\"", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "scrawny" ], "id": "en-scranny-en-adj-QfjXLfW4", "links": [ [ "scrawny", "scrawny" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, Scotland, dialect) scrawny" ], "tags": [ "Scotland", "UK", "dialectal" ] } ], "word": "scranny" }
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