skinnymalinky
/ˈskɪnɪməlɪŋki
/(also skinnymalink)
noun (plural skinnymalinkies) Scottish
A very thin person: that young skinnymalinks above the shop...
- These women are real skinnymalinks, size 2 sort of thing.
- Leave that tall brooding skinnymalink out of this… And it wasn't Christian Rock, it was ‘alternative’.
- I was a super-hot skinnymalink in my younger years, or so I'm told.
Origin
Late 19th century: origin uncertain; a Scottish children's song related the adventures of a thin man known as ‘Skinamalinky Long Leg’.