s 1 c 3 r 1 a 1 w 4 n 1 y 4
7 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
adjective being very thin
adjective inferior in size or quality
originA variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- yawns 11
- carny 10
- craws 10
- crays 10
- cyans 10
- scary 10
- scraw 10
- scray 10
- awny 10
- awry 10
- sway 10
- wany 10