Usually means: Thin, weak, and usually small.
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  1. scrawny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scrawny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scrawny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scrawny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scrawny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scrawny, scrawny: Wordnik
  7. scrawny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scrawny: Wiktionary
  9. scrawny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scrawny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scrawny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scrawny: Dictionary.com
  13. scrawny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scrawny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scrawny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scrawny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. scrawny: Rhymezone
  18. Scrawny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. scrawny: Free Dictionary
  20. scrawny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. scrawny: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. scrawny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. scrawny: Encyclopedia

(Note: See scrawnier as well.)

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adjective:  Thin, malnourished, and weak.

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