Scranny
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Scranny is an adjective meaning (UK, Scotland, dialect) scrawny.
Meaning
(UK, Scotland, dialect) scrawny.
Example Sentences
Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;
“Well, in the first place," I explained the little lady, "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong."
Rat. I’ll slily seize and Let blood from her weasand,— Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.
'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?"
Word Forms
- scrannier
- scranniest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include scranky, scroggy, scrunty, scrimp, skimp, slink.
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