scranny

Examples of scranny in a sentence

• Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;2001, Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, John Rickman, Russian Culture, →ISBN, page 38:
• If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?"2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, →ISBN, page 31:

Forms of scranny

Origin of scranny

Like scrawny and scrannel, to an old root for drying out, such as Old English scrinian (“to dry”), potentially borrowed from North Germanic; compare cognate Swedish skranig, skranglig, skral, skran, Norwegian skran, Danish skrån (“scrawny, meager, dry, barren”). Also Norwegian skrann, related to skrinn, Swedish skrinn, skrin, from Old Swedish skrinder, to an Old Norse *skrindr (“meager, emaciated, thin”); see also English scrunt; potentially related to Lithuanian skrèsti (“getting scabby”). Also see Breton krina (“to dry”).

Questions about scranny

What does scranny mean?

Scranny means scrawny.

How do you use scranny in a sentence?

Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;

What part of speech is scranny?

Scranny is an adjective.