skinny
very thin
TRANSLATION
skinny = dünn, mager --- GOOGLE INDEX skinny: approximately 180,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Airlines have crammed more seats onto airplanes by using SKINNY seats and spacing them closer together.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Harry, on the other hand, was small and SKINNY, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was always untidy.
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by Joanna K. Rowling)
(Wall Street Journal)
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Harry, on the other hand, was small and SKINNY, with brilliant green eyes and jet-black hair that was always untidy.
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by Joanna K. Rowling)
Did you
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skinny
adjective
- very thin
noun
- the true information about someone or something
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Someone once said, "Never trust a skinny chef." That seems like good advice, but then there are people like super model Kate Moss who don't trust any chef, skinny or fat, because as she says, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
Skinny is in - and that's bad news for those of us who have, or at least feel like we have, too much skin. Which brings us to the origin of this adjective. Skinny simply derives from the noun skin. In the 15th century, the "y" was added to create an adjective that at first meant "resembling the skin." By the 17th century it took on the sense of lean, emaciated.
In the mid 20th century, around the time of World War II, skinny was turned into a noun that refers to accurate information, data or facts or confidential information and gossip (Can you give me the skinny on this new customer?). It's thought this military slang derives from the notion of "the naked truth."
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SYNONYMS
bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lean, raw-boned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, thin
related expressions: skinny as a beanpole, skinny as a rail
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"That skinny kid in the photo is me when I was 12 years old."
adjective
- very thin
noun
- the true information about someone or something
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Someone once said, "Never trust a skinny chef." That seems like good advice, but then there are people like super model Kate Moss who don't trust any chef, skinny or fat, because as she says, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
Skinny is in - and that's bad news for those of us who have, or at least feel like we have, too much skin. Which brings us to the origin of this adjective. Skinny simply derives from the noun skin. In the 15th century, the "y" was added to create an adjective that at first meant "resembling the skin." By the 17th century it took on the sense of lean, emaciated.
In the mid 20th century, around the time of World War II, skinny was turned into a noun that refers to accurate information, data or facts or confidential information and gossip (Can you give me the skinny on this new customer?). It's thought this military slang derives from the notion of "the naked truth."
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SYNONYMS
bony, emaciated, gaunt, lank, lean, raw-boned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, thin
related expressions: skinny as a beanpole, skinny as a rail
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"That skinny kid in the photo is me when I was 12 years old."
