skinny Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun confidential information about a topic or person
    • he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner
  2. adjective satellite being very thin
    underweight; boney; scraggy; scrawny; weedy.
    • a child with skinny freckled legs
    • a long scrawny neck
  3. adjective of or relating to or resembling skin
  4. adjective satellite fitting snugly
    tight fitting; tightfitting; tightly fitting; tight-fitting.
    • a tightly-fitting cover
    • tight-fitting clothes
  5. adjective satellite giving or spending with reluctance
    close; near; cheeseparing; penny-pinching.
    • our cheeseparing administration
    • very close (or near) with his money
    • a penny-pinching miserly old man

WordNet

Skin"ny adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak.
    He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

Webster 1913