scranny

comparative scrannier · superlative scranniest

1. ScotlandUKdialectalscrawny

   Among the affairs of men their voices, single or united, amounted to no more than a scranny interruption easily put aside;

   2001, Margaret Mead, Geoffrey Gorer, John Rickman, Russian Culture, →ISBN, page 38

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   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.

   1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts

   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.

   1901, New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 24, page 177

   “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."

   1914, Oral Hygiene - Volume 4, page 11

   '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?"

   2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, →ISBN, page 31