Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scrawny \Scraw"ny\, a. [Cf. {Scrannel}.]
   Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

Source : WordNet®

scrawny
     adj 1: having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled
            legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: {scraggy}, {skinny},
             {underweight}, {weedy}]
     2: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby
        cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees" [syn: {scrubby},
         {stunted}]
     [also: {scrawniest}, {scrawnier}]