EMACIATE, EMACIATED, EMACIATION
ADJECTIVES
1535 — MACILENT thin, lean, lank, emaciated; shrivelled; having little flesh
1594 — LENTED that shows traces of Lent or fasting; emaciated → obs.
1748 — IMMACIATED emaciated → obs.
1818 — POOKIT emaciated, shabby, meagre; of a person or thing → Sc. & N. Ireland
1825 — PALIE thin, emaciated, having a pallid, sickly appearance, listless → Sc.
1845 — PIMPING puny, sickly, emaciated → Amer. dial.
1866 — MAGER very lean, scraggy, emaciated → Sc.
1872 — RACK-O’-BONES emaciated; ramshackle → Amer. dial.
1885 — LEAN AS A SHOTTEN HERRING very thin, emaciated → Amer. dial.
1894 — GAISHON extremely emaciated → Sc. obs.
1905 — PAALIE-MAALIE thin, emaciated, having a pallid, sickly appearance, listless → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — PEAKED thin, emaciated, as from sickness → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1909 — POOR AS JOB’S TURKEY very lean, emaciated → Amer. dial.
1911 — BOSS emaciated → Sc. (Bk.)
1918 — THIN AS A SHOTTEN HERRING very thin, emaciated → Amer. dial.
1923 — PALLEY-WALLEY thin, emaciated, having a pallid, sickly appearance, listless → Sc.
1931 — EMANCIPATED emaciated → Amer. dial. malapropism
1942 — THIN AS A SHOTTEN SHAD very thin, emaciated → Amer. dial.
1967 — RAKKIE in poor condition, skinny, emaciated → Sc.
2000 — PIMPY puny, sickly, emaciated → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1658 — TABEFACTION the wasting away or consumption of the body; emaciation
NOUNS – PERSON
1590 — GHOST a person in a state of extreme emaciation; one who is ‘a shadow of his former self’
1629 — SKELETON a very thin, lean, or emaciated person or animal
1794 — DEATH’S HEAD — DEATH’S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK a poor, miserable, emaciated fellow
..E19 — RACKER a skeleton; an emaciated person or animal → US sl.
1804 — RACKABONE — RACKABONES — RACK OF BONES a very thin, emaciated person or animal → Amer. sl.
1808 — GAISHEN — GAISHON — GAYSHEN a thin, emaciated person; a skeleton; a hobgoblin → Sc. obs.
1825 — GLUNTIE an emaciated woman → Sc.
1825 — VISION a puny, emaciated person or animal; one who is wasting away → Sc.
1832 — BEDFUL OF BONES an emaciated person; a very thin person → Sc.
1834 — ANATOMY a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1834 — ATOMY — OTOMY a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → Eng. dial.
1834 — NATOMY— NOTOMY — NOTTOMY a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → Eng. dial.
1834 — NOTOMIZE — NOTTIMIZE — NOTTYMAZE a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → Eng. dial.
1838 — BAG OF BONES an emaciated person or animal
1838 — ONDOCHT a poor, weakly, emaciated person or animal; a good-for-nothing → Sc.
1840 — SKELETONESS a very thin, lean, or emaciated woman
1854 — RACKERBONE a very thin, emaciated person or animal → Amer. sl.
1866 — SCADDIN a lean emaciated person or animal → Sc.
1870 — SKINAMALINK — SKINAMELINK — SKINAMULINK — SKINNYMALINK — SKINNYMARINK — SKINNY MERINK — SKITTAMALINK a thin or emaciated person → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1887 — SACKFU’ O’ LADLES a very thin or emaciated person → Sc.
1891 — BAGFUL OF SKIN AND BONES an emaciated person → sl. (Bk.)
..20C — RANNY an emaciated, stunted, or delicate looking person → Ulster sl.
1902 — HIONICK an emaciated person → Sc. (Bk.)
1904 — A RACKLE OF BONES a thin, emaciated person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 — HARIKELS a very emaciated person → Sc.
1908 — HARRABEL — HARROWBILL a miserable, emaciated person → Sc.
1940 — RAWHIDE an emaciated person or animal; a very thin, bony person → Amer. dial.
1954 — RAANY an emaciated, stunted, or delicate looking person → Ulster sl.
VERBS
1567 — WANZE to wither, to fade, to waste away; to become emaciated → obs.
1656 — TABEFY to waste away, to consume; to emaciate → obs.
1804 — LANK to make lean or emaciated → Sc.
1808 — WAINISH to decay, to pine away, to become emaciated → Sc. obs.
1878 — TAKE DOWN to reduce in health; to emaciate; to lay low in sickness → Sc.
1913 — GAUNT UP to emaciate → Amer. dial. (Bk.)