skinny

• n. 機密情報; 内部情報; ゴシップ
• adj.痩せた; 痩せた; きつい; ケチな
• n. (痩せた)人名; (ナノ)スキニー

skin, skin, -y, 形容詞接尾辞。関連語から派生。

skinny (adj.)

c. 1400, "resembling skin," from skin (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "lean, emaciated" is recorded from c. 1600. Of clothes, "tight-fitting" by 1970. In the noun sense of "the truth" it is World War II military slang, perhaps from the notion of the "naked" truth. Related: skinniness.

1. He set his skinny legs apart and threw back his shoulders.

彼は細い足を2本広げて、胸を強く張った。

2.You 're too skinny —we 'll have to fatten you up.

あなたは痩せすぎて、私たちはあなたを太らせなければなりません。

3.He was quite a skinny little boy.

彼は骨と皮ばかりに痩せた男の子だ。

4.She had stringy hair and skinny legs.

彼女の長い髪はまばらで光沢がなく、2本の足は竹ざおのようだ。

5.This book gives you the skinny on Hollywood.

ハリウッドの裏側を明かした本。