Skinny

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪni

Origin

skin + -y, meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derived from the phrase skin and bones, meaning associated with nudity derived from exposing skin.

Full definition of skinny

Adjective

1. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
2. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
3. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• 1972, Robert Woodruff Anderson, Solitaire: Double solitaire, Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.
• 2000, Linda Rogers, Say my name: the memoirs of Charlie Louie, We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.
• 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A singular passion: a novel, When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed ..., obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.
• 2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Governor's Choice, with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool
• 2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, She used to swim "skinny" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.

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Noun

1. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.
2. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• 2004, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia, 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
• 2009, Susan Wittig Albert, Wormwood, "Nobody would bother peeking these days," she said ruefully, "in bathing suits or in the skinny."
3. A skinny being
• 1959, Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers, "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."