scrawny

adjective, scrawn·i·er, scrawn·i·est.

1. excessively thin; lean; scraggy: a long, scrawny neck.

adjective scrawnier or scrawniest

1. very thin and bony; scraggy
2. meagre or stuntedscrawny vegetation

adj.1824, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny “lean, thin” (1820), which is of uncertain origin but probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse skrælna “to shrivel.” Cf. scrannel.