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Starving vs Skinny - What's the difference?

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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

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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

    Noun

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  • starvation
  • * 1868 , Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre

    • skinny

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    Adjective

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  • (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
    • Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender
  • (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
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  • Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
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    Noun

    (skinnies)
  • (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
    • She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.
  • A state of nakedness; nudity.
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  • A skinny being
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