scranny
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Rat. I’ll slily seize and Let blood from her weasand,— Creeping through crevice, and chink, and cranny, With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny."
- "Observe in the whole lot, from the magnificent lord of the herd down to the scranniest runt, the superlative of self-reliance, the air of puffy arrogance and solid disregard of public or private opinion such as few of us attain."
- "“Well, in the first place," I explained the little lady, "they've got three of the scranniest kids, and the mother herself don't look very strong.""
- "Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;"
- "'Look at him, said Ada, pursing her lips. 'Is he fighting material? If Hitler's crack Panzer divisions see a scranny feller like him coming towards them, will they panic?""
Etymology
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”).
Word Breakdown
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Usage
- British usage