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Definition of Skinnier
1. skinny [adj] - See also: skinny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinnier
Literary usage of Skinnier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"They have shrunk in size, become skinnier and skinnier as to the buttery layer,
lost their crusts, which were the best part of their country ancestors, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"... tamin' black Philipino devils— main war was over before that time, but they
was plenty o' tamin' to be done—and a-growin' skinnier and yellower ever' ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1845)
"... with the whole revealed character of God. 18.— The Farmer'! Library, and
Monthly Journal of Agriculture, ffo. 1. July, 1845. Edited by JOUN 3. skinnier. ..."
4. Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects by Herbert Weir Smyth (1912)
"Lithe' let her be, if skinnier than a spook. Call puny, 'trim'; for turgid, 'buxom'
say, And thus with bordering good, defects allay. ..."
5. Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects by Herbert Weir Smyth (1912)
"She squints? So Venus. Glares? Minerva's look. ' Lithe' let her be, if skinnier
than a spook. Call puny, 'trim'; for turgid, ..."
6. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"skinnier, a strange corruption of scorner, frequent in Penns) vania, and generally
used not for the person who scorns, but io the dislike which he feels. ..."
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