1824, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), which is of uncertain origin but probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse skr?lna "to shrivel." Compare scrannel.
例文
1. The vulture extended his scrawny neck.
コンドルは細長い首を伸ばしている。
2.A few scrawny chickens were scratching around the yard.
痩せた鶏が庭の周りを掘っている。
3.They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.
彼女たちはゆっくりと回復しているが、痩せて弱ってベッドに横たわっている。
4.A danned mule,'she repeated,looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
くそったれラバ!「彼女は繰り返し言った。だからあのやせこけた畜生を見ていた。
5。He looks much too skinny/ scrawny to be a weight-lifter.