stringy
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6.2
- adjective
- /ˈstrɪŋi/
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- She had a stringy physique, characterized by sinewy arms and legs with very little body fat.
- stringy hair
- stringy man
- stringy ponytail
And once you've got those proteins in in this like stringy muscular form, like it's going to taste pretty similar.
- And once you've got those proteins in in this like stringy muscular form, like it's going to taste pretty similar.
Examples
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"Arthur Nelson was a feisty man of sixty-two who was so thin he was stringy."
Fiction book (1994) -
My arms are a little stringy, but there's some good eating in my legs.
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Pancho was lean and stringy, with the long, slim legs of her African heritage.
Fiction book (2001) -
Robby turns to the local police chief, Ray Fowler, a stringy, taciturn man.
Fiction book (1995) -
She's slender, anorexic-looking, with long stringy fingers and sky-blue veins that pop off the back of her hands.
Fiction book (1995) -
He's tall and thin, a bit birdlike, with a stringy black mustache and sparse goatee.
Fiction book (1992) -
The athlete's arms were stringy, showing off the definition of lean muscle from years of training.
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Despite his height, he appeared stringy rather than bulky, with well-defined muscles under his pale skin.
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Etymology
Stringy comes from string ('a long thin piece of thread') plus -y ('like' or 'full of'). It can describe a lean body where the muscles look like 'strings', so stringy can mean 'thin with visible muscles and little fat'.