Definizione monolingua

skinny

skinny (plural skinnies)

1. A skinny person
2. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

   She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.

3. A state of nakedness; nudity.
   • 2004, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skins Skincyclopedia, page 34:

     Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in the skinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine

   • 2009, Susan Wittig Albert, Wormwood, page 90:

     ""Nobody would bother peeking these days,"" she said ruefully, ""in bathing suits or in the skinny.""

skinny (comparative skinnier, superlative skinniest)

1. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.

   Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender

2. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
   • 1972, Robert Woodruff Anderson, Solitaire: Double solitaire, page 53:

     Lets take our clothes oft"" and go swimming skinny.

   • 2000, Linda Rogers, Say my name: the memoirs of Charlie Louie, page 25:

     We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.

   • 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A singular passion: a novel, page 200:

     When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.

   • 2007, Weston P. Hatfield, The Governors Choice, page 20:

     with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool

   • 2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson, Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page 220:

     She used to swim ""skinny"" in Spragues cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.

Definizione dizionario skinny

magro

	sottile
	Narrow in size, and (of a person or animal) usually indicating carrying little fat.

debole

gracile

macilento

scarno

scremato

secco

striminzito

Altri significati:

(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).

A state of nakedness; nudity.

(informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.

thin