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Meager is a related term of lank.


As an adjective meager

is having little flesh; lean; thin.

As a verb meager

is to make lean.

As a noun lank is

a link (connection).

meager

English

(wikipedia meager)

Alternative forms

* meagre (Commonwealth English)

Adjective

(er)
  • Having little flesh; lean; thin.
  • Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
  • A meager piece of cake in one bite.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1607 , author=Thomas Walkington , title=The Optick Glasse of Humors, or, The touchstone of a golden temperature, or ... , page=54 citation , passage=...that begets many ugly and deformed phantasies in the braine, which being also hot and drie in the second extenuates and makes meager the body extraordinarily, ...}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1637 , author=William Shakespeare , title=The most excellent Historie of the Merchant of Venice: With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke ... , page=E5 citation , passage=Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge tween man and man: but thou, thou meager lead which rather threatnest then dost promise ought...}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * meagerly * meagerness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make lean.
  • Anagrams

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    lank

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
  • * Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
  • * Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
  • * Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
  • (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
  • * Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
  • (obsolete) languid; drooping.
  • * Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
  • (Macaulay)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To become lank; to make lank.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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