| 单词 | skin-and-bony |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin-and-bony a. to be skin and bone (also bones): to be very thin or emaciated. to skin and bone (also bones): to the point of emaciation or complete despair. Also as a n. (also skin-and-boner): a very thin or emaciated person or animal (rare). Also occasionally skin-and-bony adj. ΘΚΠ 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 c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 73 (MED) Ful of fleissche Y was to fele, Now..Me is lefte But skyn & boon. a1456 J. Lydgate Bycorne & Chychevache (Trin. Cambr. R.3.20) 84 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 436 I am but skyn and boon. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward V f. xviv In..whose reigne she dyed, when she had nothyng but a reueled skynne and bone. 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. A.viv Yet art thou skyn and bone. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 251 My self being nothing but skin and bone, as one that languished in a Consumption. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 10 She Languished and pinde away to skinne and bone. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. liii. 201 Her features are so regular..that were she only skin and bone, she must be a beauty. 1792 W. Borrow in M. F. G.-B. Giner & M. Montgomery Knaresborough Workhouse Daybk. (2003) 187 She nothing but skin and bone and a boundance of Lumber. 1823 Blackwood's Mag. July 66 Steeds of various degrees, high-mettled racer, or hunter, Bit of blood, skin-and-boner, pad, hack, mule, jackass, or donkey. 1827 tr. Narr. Captivity de Brisson in tr. Perils & Captivity 224 We arrived, extenuated and reduced to skin and bone. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xxii. 176 The breast, which is the only delicate cuts in a duck, always goes in a direction which I cannot imagine where, and your own plate comes down so miserably skin-and-bony! 1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 73 ‘Heh, heh, heh!’ cried an old skin-and-bones. 1906 Daily Chron. 26 Nov. 4/7 What's wearing me to skin and bone? My neighbour's grinding gramophone. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 61 You silly great fulminating bogeyman! You're nothing but a laugh and a daft skin-and-bony man. 1955 G. Greene Loser takes All i. vii. 43 The horse was all skin and bone and I had forgotten that the road was uphill. 1988 S. Deshpande That Long Silence ii. 68 Look at your arms—just skin and bone. 1998 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 15 June a4/2 Their faces and limbs shrink to skin and bones. 2006 Racing Post (Nexis) 2 June 20 He was in a dreadful state. He was pretty much skin and bones. < as lemmas |
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