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How to pronounce skinny in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy
Derivation skinniness


a child with skinny freckled legs.
Type Words
Synonyms tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting
Type Words
Synonyms cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching
Type Words
Type of information, info


he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner.
Type Words
Derivation skin

Examples of skinny

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I like my boyfriend jeans, items at last not made for skinny girls without hips.
From the stltoday.com
He was skinny as a goal post and didn't fill out until he went to Butte College.
From the sacbee.com
His rippled abdomen descends in V-shaped layers to a comparatively skinny waist.
From the denverpost.com
A visitor crawls through a skinny passage way in Lower Cave at Carlsbad Caverns.
From the dailyherald.com
When he bought Datek, the skinny was that Ameritrade would go on the block fast.
From the businessweek.com
There was the skinny man on the floor, eyes open and a surgical cap on his head.
From the hepburnadvocate.com.au
The other man is described as in his 20s, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and skinny.
From the chron.com
That freaked me out at first cause I thought I had big ole feet and skinny legs.
From the tennessean.com
The first suspect is described as being about 16 years old, 6ft tall and skinny.
From the middevonstar.co.uk
More examples
  • Confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
  • Scraggy: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
  • Of or relating to or resembling skin
  • Tight-fitting: fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"
  • Cheeseparing: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
  • Dope: slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?"
  • Skinny was a band from London, which released two albums over a course of four years. Their most successful song, "Failure", was included on both albums.
  • SKINNY is a directing team based in Los Angeles that specializes in music videos. It is composed of David Hache, Marc-Edouard Leon and Dori Oskowitz. SKINNY is known for developing its concepts through the use of creative methods that are deeply rooted in mysticism. ...
  • Skinny is the debut novel by Hungarian-Canadian author Ibi Kaslik, first published by HarperCollins in May 2004. It appeared on the New York Times best sellers list for two consecutive weeks in 2008.