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Skinny

adjective

Being very thin. Synonyms: boney, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy. "A long scrawny neck"

Of or relating to or resembling skin.

Fitting snugly. Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting. "Tight-fitting clothes"

Giving or spending with reluctance. Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching. "Very close (or near) with his money" , "A penny-pinching miserly old man"

noun

Confidential information about a topic or person.

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"Skinny" Quotes from Famous Books

... spectacles, but from some strange half-conscious vanity had always refused to do so. Every year her sight grew worse. She was wearing now a dress of black silk, very badly made, cut to display her long skinny neck and bony shoulders. She wore her clothes as though she struggled between a disdain for such vanities and a desire to appear attractive. Her manner of twisting her eyelids and wrinkling her nose gave her a peevish expression, ...

— The Captives • Hugh Walpole

... folks, for Holy League bear more Than the prodigal son in the Bible bore; For he, together with his swine, On bean, and root, and husk would dine; Whilst they, unable to procure Such dainty morsels, must endure Between their skinny lips to pass Offal and tripe of ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... could reply, or I could say anything more, the door that led to the landing was opened softly and slyly, and Miss Jillgall peeped in. Eunice instantly left me, and ran to the meddling old maid. They whispered to each other. Miss Jillgall's skinny arm encircled my sister's ...

— The Legacy of Cain • Wilkie Collins

... sight of the wood fire and sit down in the easy-chair to warm herself. We know who was sitting in it already; and thus she was received by Bad Luck at once into her very lap, and clutched about securely by that unpleasant lady's cold and skinny arms. She looked up at Fritzing with a shiver to remark wonderingly that the room, in spite of its big fire and its smallness, was like ice, but her lips fell apart in a frozen stare and she gazed blankly past him at the wall behind ...

— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim

... small, infinitely aged and withered of aspect. His paws and forearms were black with half-dry ink. Here and there, all over his fuzzy gray body, ink-blobs were spattered. In one skinny paw he still clutched the splintered ...

— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune

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