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If a person or an animal is scrawny, they look very thin, and not in a strong or fashionable way — more as if there is not enough flesh, or not enough food, and the body looks weak. A scrawny cat, a scrawny kid in a big jumper, scrawny arms. It is informal, and it is rarely kind. Slim and slender can be compliments; scrawny is not. Skinny is close, but skinny can still be a look someone wants; scrawny always carries ‘weak’ or ‘poor’. Writers sometimes stretch it to a scrawny tree or, jokingly, a scrawny budget, but the home use is living bodies. Everyday English, a little sharp.
瘦巴巴的、骨瘦如柴
組成A variant of old dialect scranny (‘thin, lean, poor’). Scholars are not sure of the next step: it may come from Old Norse skran (‘rubbish, junk’) + -y, or from Old Norse skrælna (‘to be shrivelled’). Norwegian skran also means lean or thin.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scrawnyadj/ˈskɹɔːni/
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Thin, malnourished, and weak.
- “Tell him, in these words, that I will have his scrawny bones before me now. Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children. Go.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。