lathyadj.
/ˈlɑːθi/, /ˈlaθi/, U.S. /ˈlæθi/ 1. Resembling a lath; thin or long and thin like a lath. Said esp. of a very thin person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin
leanc1000
thinc1000
swonga1300
meagrea1398
empty?c1400
(as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405
macilent?a1425
rawc1425
gauntc1440
to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450
leany?a1475
swampc1480
scarrya1500
pinched1514
extenuate1528
lean-fleshed1535
carrion-lean1542
spare1548
lank1553
carrion1565
brawn-fallen1578
raw-bone1590
scraggeda1591
thin-bellied1591
rake-lean1593
bare-boned1594
forlorn1594
Lented1594
lean-looked1597
shotten herring1598
spiny1598
starved1598
thin-belly1598
raw-boned1600
larbar1603
meagry?1603
fleshless1605
scraggy1611
ballow1612
lank-leana1616
skinnya1616
hagged1616
scraggling1616
carrion-like1620
extenuated1620
thin-gutted1620
haggard1630
scrannel1638
leanisha1645
skeletontal1651
overlean1657
emaciated1665
slank1668
lathy1672
emaciate1676
nithered1691
emacerated1704
lean-looking1713
scranky1735
squinny-gut(s)1742
mauger1756
squinny1784
angular1789
etiolated1791
as thin (also lean) as a rail1795
wiry1808
slink1817
scranny1820
famine-hollowed1822
sharp featured1824
reedy1830
scrawny1833
stringy1833
lean-ribbeda1845
skeletony1852
famine-pinched1856
shelly1866
flesh-fallen1876
thinnish1884
all horn and hide1890
unfurnished1893
bone-thin1899
underweight1899
asthenic1925
skin-and-bony1935
skinny-malinky1940
skeletal1952
pencil-neck1960
1672 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 239 Duns Scotus his picture—a leane lathie man.
1739 G. West Canto of Fairy Queen xx. 5 He..eft his lathy Falchion brandished.
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 148 In some parts of the profile view, it is too lathy and slender.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 200 His figure was gaunt and lathy.
1851 Fraser's Mag. 43 167/1 From the hips downwards he was remarkably well made, straight, and lathy.
1881 R. G. White Eng. Without & Within ix. 201 The elder daughter was, I will not say a lathy girl, but very slim.
1893 E. H. Barker Wanderings by S. Waters 265 The lathy poplars leaning in every direction.
2. Made of lath (and plaster).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [adjective] > made of lath and plaster
stoothed1770
lathy1804
1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia 12 One of John Bull's True Breed, overhearing, by chance, Through a lathy partition, those good friends to France.
1855 Househ. Words 12 215 We are divided only by a lathy partition.
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