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Scrannel

Scrannel \Scran"nel\, a. [Cf. Scrawny.] Slight; thin; lean; poor.

Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scrannel

"thin, meager," 1630s; any modern use traces to Milton ("Lycidas," 124), who may have invented it out of dialectal scranny (see scrawny). Or it might be from a Scandinavian source akin to Norwegian skran "rubbish." Compare English dialectal and Scottish skran "scraps, broken victuals; refuse," in military slang "food."

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scrannel

a. slight; thin; lean; poor

Usage examples of "scrannel".

Such scrannel threats and blusterings are no worthy substitute for well-argued views.

Well, for all that your mother was a cur, you make a better one than that scrannel Vardanes, who thought only of his prick in the end.

With a screech and a cloud of dust, he pulled up in front of the Scrannel Dogge, heeled down the kickstand, and went inside to rent the common room for the space of the afternoon.

Enderby heard a voice, Silversmith's from the sound of it, scrannelling perverted words from Hamlet while a guitar thrummed chords.