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thin as a rake

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables
thin as a rake
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Incredibly thin; at an unhealthy-looking level of thinness.

Etymology

Alteration of earlier lean as a rake, from Middle English lene as a rake; the last element in is potentially an modification of either Middle English *rak (“skinny animal”) (from Old Norse hrak) or rak (“rack”) after rake (“rake”), though it might merely represent that word.

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Questions

What does thin as a rake mean?
Incredibly thin; at an unhealthy-looking level of thinness.
Where does thin as a rake come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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