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"word": "skinny as a rail"
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"word": "skinny drink of water"
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"word": "skinny jab"
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"word": "skinny legend"
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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"text": "Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender",
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"Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense)."
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"(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense)."
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"roman": "naḥīf",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "نَحِيف"
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"sense": "thin",
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "arıq"
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "худы́"
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"roman": "mǎ́ršav",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "мъ́ршав"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magre"
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"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "ulesoda",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ᎤᎴᏐᏓ"
},
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "chonna"
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{
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "sau³",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "瘦"
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"roman": "shòu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "瘦"
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"roman": "kūshòu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "枯瘦"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "皮包骨頭"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "píbāogǔtóu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "皮包骨头"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "thin",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mager"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "laiha"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "luiseva"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "thin",
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"masculine"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mager"
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{
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "iskhnós",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ἰσχνός"
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "רָזֶה"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "patlā",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "पतला"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "vékony"
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{
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "kurus"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
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"word": "magro"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "smunto"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tutta pelle"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "scarnito"
},
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "sciupato"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "scavato"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "macilento"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "scheletrico"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "pelle e ossa"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "emaciato"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "secco"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "smilzo"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hone to kawa bakari no",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "骨と皮ばかりの"
},
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"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yasekoketa",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "やせこけた"
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"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yaseta",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "やせた"
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"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
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"word": "kuru"
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"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
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"word": "kera"
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"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
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"word": "garing"
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"sense": "thin",
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"word": "gering"
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"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magru"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mógre"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "skɔɔm skeaŋ",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ស្គមស្គាំង"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "skɔɔm",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ស្គម"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mareun",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "마른"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppaeppaehan",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "빼빼한"
},
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"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "chǭi",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ຈ່ອຍ"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "macer"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "gracilis"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "lou",
"lang": "Louisiana Creole French",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mæg"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "lou",
"lang": "Louisiana Creole French",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mèg"
},
{
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mršav",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "мршав"
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{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "pakarea"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hīroki"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hīoi"
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{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "whīrokiroki"
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{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūpuhi"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūai"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūpuhipuhi"
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "whīroki"
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "kōhoi"
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"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magre"
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"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mæġer"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "lâğar",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "لاغر"
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "denn"
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{
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hollrigjich"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "chudy"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magro"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "raphi"
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{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "slab"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "xudój",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "худо́й"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tóščij",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "то́щий"
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
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"word": "мршав"
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"sense": "thin",
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "thin",
"word": "chudý"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "suh"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "shujšan"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "delgado"
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"english": "to a more extreme degree",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "flaco"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mager"
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{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pɔ̌ɔm",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ผอม"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xudýj",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "худи́й"
},
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"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "patlā",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "پتلا"
},
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"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "gầy"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ốm"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ròm"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "còm"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 0 0 0 39",
"code": "yi",
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"roman": "moger",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "מאָגער"
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"ref": "1974, National Fruit & Syrup Manufacturers Assn, Dairy & ice cream field, Volume 157, Issues 1-6 (cooking), page 45",
"text": "...into the skinny chocolate milk?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1982, Mykola Ponedilok, Funny tears: short stories (history), page 186",
"text": "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...",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Sydney Bauer, Undertow (fiction), page 387",
"text": "“All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on his skinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Fancy AF Cocktails",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"Having reduced fat or calories."
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"(informal, of food or beverages) Having reduced fat or calories."
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"of food or beverages"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1972, Robert Woodruff Anderson, Solitaire: Double solitaire, page 53",
"text": "Let's take our clothes oft\" and go swimming skinny.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Linda Rogers, Say my name: the memoirs of Charlie Louie, page 25",
"text": "We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A singular passion: a novel, page 200",
"text": "When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Governor's Choice, page 20",
"text": "with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page 220",
"text": "She used to swim \"skinny\" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping)."
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"ref": "1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A singular passion: a novel, page 200",
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{
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{
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "secco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "smilzo"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hone to kawa bakari no",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "骨と皮ばかりの"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yasekoketa",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "やせこけた"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yaseta",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "やせた"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "kuru"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"krama"
],
"word": "kera"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"informal",
"krama-ngoko"
],
"word": "garing"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"informal",
"krama-ngoko"
],
"word": "gering"
},
{
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magru"
},
{
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mógre"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "skɔɔm skeaŋ",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ស្គមស្គាំង"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "skɔɔm",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ស្គម"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "mareun",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "마른"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ppaeppaehan",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "빼빼한"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "chǭi",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ຈ່ອຍ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "macer"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "gracilis"
},
{
"code": "lou",
"lang": "Louisiana Creole French",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mæg"
},
{
"code": "lou",
"lang": "Louisiana Creole French",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mèg"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mršav",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "мршав"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "pakarea"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hīroki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hīoi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "whīrokiroki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūpuhi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūai"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "tūpuhipuhi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "whīroki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "kōhoi"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magre"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mæġer"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "lâğar",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "لاغر"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "denn"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "hollrigjich"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "chudy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "magro"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "raphi"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "slab"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xudój",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "худо́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tóščij",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "то́щий"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "мршав"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "mršav"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "chudý"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "suh"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "shujšan"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "delgado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "to a more extreme degree",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "flaco"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "mager"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "pɔ̌ɔm",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ผอม"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xudýj",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "худи́й"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "patlā",
"sense": "thin",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "پتلا"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "gầy"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ốm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "ròm"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "còm"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "moger",
"sense": "thin",
"word": "מאָגער"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "2004, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia, page 34",
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{
"ref": "2009, Susan Wittig Albert, Wormwood, page 90",
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"A low-fat serving of coffee."
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"(informal) A low-fat serving of coffee."
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"ref": "1959, Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers, page 10",
"text": "\"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.\"",
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"(nonstandard) A skinny being."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"word": "laiha"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "maigre"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"word": "sovány"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "magro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nudo"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "macer"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "A skinny person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "particolari"
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"code": "it",
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"masculine",
"plural"
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"word": "dettagli"
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],
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"ref": "1982, Ward's Auto World, volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 65",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1996, Kevin Dowd, Getting Connected: The Internet at 56K and Up, page 25",
"text": "By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully) skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left).",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2001, Bankruptcy Court Decisions (volume 38, page A-7)",
"text": "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.\""
}
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