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scrannier

scrannier is the comparative form of scranny.

Meaning of scranny

Adjective

scranny (comparative scrannier, superlative scranniest)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) scrawny
    • Rat.
      I’ll slily seize and
      Let blood from her weasand,—
      Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny,
      With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

Questions about scrannier

What is scrannier the comparative form of?
Scrannier is the comparative form of scranny.

Words near scrannier in the dictionary

  1. scranches
  2. scranching
  3. scranky
  4. scranned
  5. scrannel
  6. scrannier
  7. scranniest
  8. scranning
  9. scrannish
  10. scranny
  11. scrans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrannier (page history and authors); scranny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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