Adjective
- 1. scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy, thin (vs. fat), lean
- usage: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
- 2. scrawny, scrubby, stunted, inferior (vs. superior)
- usage: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
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