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adjective Archaic.
- thin or slight.
- squeaky or unmelodious.
adjective archaic
- thin
- harsh
adj.“thin, meager,” 1630s; any modern use traces to Milton (“Lycidas,” 124), who may have invented it out of dialectal scranny (see scrawny). Or it might be from a Scandinavian source akin to Norwegian skran “rubbish.” Cf. English dialectal and Scottish skran “scraps, broken victuals; refuse,” in military slang “food.”