scrawny

Preposition: for

• beef: They are too scrawny for beef and used to be transported to continental veal crates.

Modifies a noun

• neck: He was an intense man, with his shirt buttoned to his scrawny neck, the creases in his trousers like knives.
• man: He was a small, scrawny man who had no real signs of life except for a faint green glow smoldering behind his eyes.
• tree: Across a searing, unending plain of sand, an isolated camel train picks its way toward the shelter of a scrawny tree.
• boy: A few inches away writhes a scrawny boy, born one month prematurely, also jaundiced.
• body: That wind, laden with the bitter dust, knifed into Sharba's scrawny body.
• arm: Do you we really want to see more tantrums and her awful scrawny arms waving about like a maniac?

Modifying Another Word

• too: A male calf, too scrawny for the meat industry, is often shot.
• very: When I first met Mr McMuffin I was very scrawny.
• up: So he bawled at her " Hurry up scrawny " .
• so: He may be so scrawny and unattractive as a pup that you have to fall in love with him.