scrawny

/ˈskrɔ·ni/ adj

Definition

› (of a person’s or animal’s body) very thin because not fed enough, so that you can see the shape of the bones under the skin: The store had only a few scrawny chickens left.

(Definition of scrawny adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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