scranny
The English word “scranny” has 1 meaning listed here.
adjective
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,…
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