Starving vs Skinny - What's the difference?
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, title= (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
(informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
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Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
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(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
A state of nakedness; nudity.
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A skinny being
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Starving is a related term of skinny.
As nouns the difference between starving and skinny
is that starving is starvation while skinny is (colloquial) the details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.As a verb starving
is .As an adjective skinny is
(informal) having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.starving
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Verb
(head)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
skinny
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Adjective
(er)- Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
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(skinnies)- She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.