Reverse Dictionary: THIN

ADJECTIVES
1386 ► very lean, thin → LEAN AS A RAKE 
1400 ► lean, thin, scrawny → LEANY → obs.
1425 ► of small thickness, thin, fine → SUBTILE 
1486 ► lean, thin; exhausted, worn out → LARBAR → obs., chiefly Sc.
1513 ► thin, slender → LENYE → Sc. obs.
1535 ► thin, lean, lank, emaciated; shrivelled; having little flesh → MACILENT → rare
1605 ► thin → SKINNY → sl.
1620 ► haggard and thin → CADAVEROUS 
1641 ► thin, slender → LEARY → Eng. dial.
M17   ► long-backed, tall and thin → MACKEREL-BACKED → sl.
1688 ► slender, thin, lean → GRACILIOUS → obs. rare
18C   ► adj. thin, attenuated, wasted → CALICO → colloq.
1726 ► having a narrow, thin body like a herring; lanky, thin, lean, bony → HERRING-GUTTED 
1727 ► slender, thin, lean → GRACILENT → obs.
1746 ► of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking → THIRDLE → THURDLE → Eng. dial.
1746 ► of persons and animals: gaunt, lank, thin, hungry-looking → THIRL → Eng. dial.
1784 ► very thin, lean, or slender; narrow → SQUINNY 
1787 ► very thin → THIN AS A SNAKE → Amer. dial.
1790 ► tall and too thin; lanky → RIBBY → Eng. dial.
1790 ► thin; skinny → RIBBY → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
19C   ► very thin, ‘herring-gutted’ → CRANE-GUTTED → Eng. dial.
19C   ► referring to a thin, awkward person → GANDER-SHANKED → US sl.
19C   ► of a person: excessively thin → NARROW AS A DRINK OF WATER → Eng. dial.
19C   ► thin, long-legged → RAIMSY → Eng. dial.
19C   ► tall, thin, and bony → RAWNYING → Eng. dial.
1802 ► thin and flat; also used of a person → SCLAFE → Eng. dial. obs.
1802 ► thin and flat; also used of a person → SKLEFF → Sc. obs.
1806 ► tired, worn out; harassed, careworn, thin → HAGGED → HAGGIT → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1823 ► very thin, lean → THIN AS A RAKE 
1825 ► tall, thin, and bony → RAWNY → Eng. dial.
1827 ► tall or long and slender; lanky, thin → SPINDLY → Amer. sl.
1828 ► very thin → POOR AS A SNAKE → Amer. dial.
1836 ► having pinched features; thin, wasted, sickly-looking; unwell → PEAKED → Eng. dial.  
1846 ► thin, poor; small, insignificant → SCOY → Eng. dial.
1852 ► used to denote unhealthy thinness and weakness → WEEDY → sl.
1854 ► ungainly, thin, tall → LARRUPING → Eng. dial.
1856 ► spare, small, thin → SCRAGGY → SKRAGGY → Eng. dial.
1856 ► lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → SCRANKY → SKRANKY → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1857 ► lean, thin; poor, worthless → SCRANNEL → Eng. dial.
1860 ► very thin → THIN AS A WHIP-SNAKE → Amer. dial.
1865 ► said of a thin, starved-looking person → HIGH IN THE LEGS LIKE NANNY PORTER’S → Eng. dial.
1865 ► said of a thin, starved-looking person → LONG IN THE LEGS LIKE NANNY PORTER’S HENS → Eng. dial.
1866 ► of a thin, bony, and lanky build → SHELLY
1868 ► having the bones prominently visible beneath the skin; thin, bony, gangling → RAWNY-BONED → Amer. dial.
1869 ► very thin → POOR AS A BLACK-SNAKE → Amer. dial.
1876 ► thin, meagre, spare in person → LEAR → Eng. dial.
1878 ► thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → SCRANNY-LOOKING → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1883 ► very thin → POOR AS A RAKE → Eng. dial.
1884 ► thin, flimsy → SAYLY → Eng. dial.
1885 ► very thin, emaciated → LEAN AS A SHOTTEN HERRING → Amer. dial.
1890 ► lean, thin, peaked, sickly, weak in appearance → MAUGER → Amer. dial.
1891 ► thin, scraggy in appearance → SKRANKY-LOOKING → Sc.
1892 ► thin → TEEM → Eng. dial.
1897 ► awkwardly tall, lanky; straggling; long and thin → SCRAWING → Eng. dial.
1897 ► tall, thin, and awkward → SHACKLY → Amer. dial.
1899 ► thin; small → FAT AS A MATCH → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► thin, poor, ill-nourished → FAGEY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► thin, slender, gaunt → GANCE → GANSE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► adj. thin, scraggy → SCRAGGLY → Eng. dial.
1902 ► over-tall and thin; lanky → LANGREL → LANKREL → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► tall, thin, like a lath → LATTY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► tall and thin; lank, slender, spare → REIBIE → RIBIE → Sc. (Bk.)
1904 ► thin; lean; hungry-looking → RHINY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► tall and thin; lank, slender, spare → RIBISH → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1904 ► thin, slender; light → SCALY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► thin, attenuated → SCRAILY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► small, insignificant, thin, puny → SCRATTY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► rather thin → THINLY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► hungry-looking, thin → YAPPY → N. Ireland (Bk.)
1907 ► said of a tall, thin person → LONG, LEAN AND LANK → Amer. dial.
1908 ► lean, thin, meagre → EKEN → Sc.
1913 ► very thin; said of persons, fabrics, etc. → THIN AS VANITY → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► very thin → THINNER THAN A HAYRAKE → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1916 ► having slim hips; thin, skinny → NARROW-ASSED → Amer. sl.
1918 ► very thin, emaciated → THIN AS A SHOTTEN HERRING → Amer. dial.
1930 ► thin → NEEDLE AND PIN → rhyming sl.
1930 ► having the bones prominently visible beneath the skin; thin, bony, gangling → RAWBONY → Amer. dial.
1939 ► thin; small; meagre → LARRICKY → Amer. dial.
1941 ► tall and thin, usually without any implication of awkwardness → LARRICKY → Amer. dial.
1941 ► of a very thin person: thin like a lath → CORPSY 
1942 ► thin; skinny → CORPSY → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → FLATSIDED → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin, scrawny → GANTED (DOWN) → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → POOR → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → RATTLEBONED → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → SKINNISH → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → SKINNYMALINK → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → SLIM-JIM → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► thin; skinny → SPARERIBBED → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► very thin, emaciated → THIN AS A SHOTTEN SHAD → Amer. dial.
1950 ► thin → MAGA → W. Indies Rasta
1950 ► thin → SCARCE-O-FAT → W. Indies sl.
1950 ► of a person: thin → SKINNY-ASS → sl., orig. US
1950 ► of a person: thin → SKINNY-ASSED → sl., orig. US
1958 ► tall and thin, long-legged and skinny → CHOKE-BORED → Amer. dial.
1965 ► having the bones prominently visible beneath the skin; thin, bony, gangling → RAWBONED → Amer. dial.
1965 ► very thin → SKINNY AS A SNAKE → Amer. dial.
1967 ► thin; small → FAT AS A BUGGY WHIP → Amer. dial.
1970 ► said of a very thin person → ALL RIBS AND DICK LIKE A ROBBER’S DOG → Aust. & NZ sl.
1990 ► very thin → ALL RIBS AND DICK LIKE A ROBBER’S DOG → Aust. sl.
1994 ► thin → MAAGA → UK sl.
1997 ► very thin; small and thin → SKINNY-MINNY → US sl.
1999 ► very thin, skinny → SKINNY AS A SAPLING WITH THE BARK SCRAPED OFF → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

ADVERBS
1523 ► thinly, scantily → RARELY → obs. rare

NOUNS
1175 ► a making thin or slim; a wearing away of flesh by fasting → LENSING → obs.
1398 ► thinness, tenuity → SUBTILENESS → obs.
1588 ► thinness; fewness, scantiness → RARENESS → obs. rare
1626 ► deficiency of physical substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation → JEJUNENESS 
1632 ► thinness, leanness → MACILENCY → rare
1802 ► a thin, skinny person or animal; anything thin and shrivelled; a skeleton → SKRAE → Sc.
1852 ► thinness, leanness → MACILENCE → rare
1854 ► a thin, spare-looking person or animal → SCRANNEL → Eng. dial.
1904 ► somebody or something tall and thin → RENCHEL → Sc. obs. (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1572 ► a long, slim, awkward fellow → LUNGIS → obs.
1582 ► a very thin or lean person → RAKE 
1590 ► an extremely thin person → SCARECROW 
1596 ► a very thin and lean person who has scarcely any flesh to cover his bones → BAREBONE 
1596 ► a thin, slight man; a man of shrivelled and shrunken form → ELF-SKIN → obs., contemptuous
L16   ► a very thin person, looking as if ‘he’d run away from the bone-house’ → → ONE OF PHARAOH’S LEAN KINE sl.
1621 ► a thin, lean bony person → BALD-RIB 
1629 ► a very thin, lean, or emaciated person or animal → SKELETON 
1736 ► a thin, ill-grown, undersized person or animal → WALLIDRAGGLE → WALLYDRAGGLE → Sc. 
1737 ► a very tall, thin or lank person → MACKAREL-BACK → MACKEREL-BACK → obs. (Bk.)
1764 ► an emaciated person, a noticeably thin or skinny person → BAG-OF-BONES → sl.
19C   ► a thin bony person → AMATON → Sc.
19C   ► a very thin or skinny person or animal → BONE-BAG → sl.
19C   ► a very thin or skinny person or animal → BONE-HEAP → sl.
19C   ► a very thin or skinny person or animal → BUNDLE OF BONES → sl.
19C   ► a very thin person → RATTLEBONES → Eng. dial.
19C   ► a very thin or skinny person or animal → STACK OF BONES → sl.
E19   ► a very thin person or animal → RAMES → Eng. dial.
1802 ► a thin, skinny person or animal; anything thin and shrivelled; a skeleton → SCRAE → SCRAY → SKRAE → Sc.
1804 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal → RACK OF BONES → Amer. sl.
1805 ► a sickly, thin, or undersized person; a term of contempt → GHOST → Sc. obs.
1808 ► a thin, emaciated person; a skeleton; a hobgoblin → GAISHON → Sc. obs.
1815 ► a tall, thin person → RANDLE-TREE → Sc.
1818 ► a thin, unhealthy person; a vacillating fellow → WINDLE-STRAW → Sc.
1820 ► a thin, lean person or animal; an animal in poor condition → RIBE → Sc.
1822 ► a thin, weakly person → BEAN-SWAUP → Sc.
1823 ► a tall, thin man → BEAN-STICK 
1825 ► a very tall and thin or lanky person; generally applied to a woman → GANT → GENT → Sc.
1825 ► a puny, thin, emaciated person or animal; one who is wasting away → VISION → Sc.
1825 ► a thin, lanky person → WILLOW-WAND → Sc.
1825 ► a thin, spare person → WYUCHLET → Sc. obs.
1832 ► an emaciated person; a very thin person; a skinny, bony bedfellow → BEDFUL OF BONES → Sc. 
1834 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → ANATOMY → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1834 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → ATOMY → Eng. dial.
1834 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → NATOMY → NOTOMY → NOTTOMY → Eng. dial.
1834 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → NOTOMIZE → NOTTIMIZE → NOTTYMAZE → Eng. dial.
1834 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal, a ‘bag of bones’ → OTOMY → OTTOMY → Eng. dial.
1836 ► a tall, thin person → DRUMSTICK
1837 ► a tall, thin person → BEANPOLE → sl.
1838 ► a tall, thin person → YARD OF PUMP WATER → UK sl.
1840 ► a very thin, lean, or emaciated woman → SKELETONESS 
1845 ► a thin or withered person, who has little flesh on his bones → DRY-BONES
1849 ► a thin, scrawny person → MOP-STICK → sl.
M19   ► one who is thin and awkward → GANDER-GUT → US sl.
M19   ► a tall, thin person → HOP-POLE → sl.
M19   ► a very thin person → RASHER OF WIND → sl.
1854 ► a very thin, emaciated person or animal → RACKERBONE → Amer. sl.
1854 ► a thin, spare-looking person or animal → SCRANNEL → Eng. dial.
1860 ► a very thin person → CAGE OF BONES → Eng. dial.
1863 ► a pigmy, a diminutive person, a small thin ‘slip of a fellow’ → OTTY-MOTTY → Eng. dial.
1865 ► a very thin person; an emaciated person → GAISHEN → Sc.
1866 ► a thin, wiry, sharp-featured person → MIRE SNIPE → Sc.
1866 ► a tall, thin person → RAFT → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1866 ► a long, thin, bony woman → SCOW → Sc.
1868 ► a thin skinny person → BAREBONES → sl.
1869 ► a thin and unhealthily delicate person → WEED → sl.
1870 ► a thin or emaciated person → SKINAMELINK → SKINAMULINK → SKINNYMALINK → SKINNYMARINK → SKINNY MERINK → Amer. dial.
1879 ► a thin, puny little child → SPARLING → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1880 ► a thin man with jerky movements → MONKEY ON A STICK → colloq.
1880 ► a tall, very thin woman in evening dress → SALLY B → sl.
1882 ► an ironical name for a thin, lanky, bony person → GIBLETS → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1885 ► a tall, thin man → GASPIPE-CRAWLER → sl.
1887 ► a very thin or emaciated person → SACKFU’ O’ LADLES → Sc.
1888 ► a thin, scraggy man or animal → SCRALLION → Eng. dial.
1890 ► a very thin person → PAIR OF TONGS → sl. (Bk.)
1893 ► a tall, thin person → GHENT → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1897 ► a thin man; an odd figure → BAIGLE → BEEGLE → Sc.
L19   ► a thin, slopes-shouldered person → KANGAROO → sl.
L19   ► a tall, thin person → LAMP-POST → sl.
L19   ► a very thin, mournful, and lugubrious person → LONG STREAK OF MISERY → sl.
L19   ► a very thin, mournful, and lugubrious person → THIN STREAK OF MISERY → sl.
20C   ► a soldier’s term for a tall, thin person → PULL-THROUGH → Brit. sl.
20C   ► a painfully thin person → SKIN → Brit. sl.
20C   ► a painfully thin person → SKIN AND GRIEF → Brit. sl.
20C   ► a very thin person → SKIN-A-GUTS → Brit. sl.
20C   ► a very thin person → SKINNY-GUTS → Brit. sl.
20C   ► a thin, lanky person → WHANG → Irish sl.
1900 ► a very tall, thin man → EDDERER → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► a gaunt or thin person → GANTLINE → US nautical sl.
1902 ► a tall, thin person → LANKY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► a thin, shapeless, overgrown boy → LANKY-LONG-LEGS → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1902 ► a thin, shapeless, overgrown boy → LANKY-LOO → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a thin man → BONES → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1904 ► a thin, emaciated person → RACKLE OF BONES → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a tall and thin person → RENCHEL → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1904 ► a thin, miserable-looking person → SCAA → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a tall, thinly-made person or animal → SCALY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a thin, meagre person → SCRANNY → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a long, thin person → SCREED → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► a thin, lank person or animal; a poor, puling creature; a shabby or oddly-dressed person; a guy → SCRIBE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► a tall, thin person → HALBERT → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► a nickname given to a person who is thin and poorly developed → RABBIT-HUND → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► a term of contempt for anything very lean and thin → RAG → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► a tall, thin person → TAPPIN → TAUPIN → Sc. (Bk.)
1910 ► a tall, thin man → LEGS ELEVEN → Aust. sl.
1910 ► a very thin person → LONG DRINK OF WATER → sl.
1910 ► a very thin person → SKILLIGAREEN → sl.
1910 ► a notably thin person → SPLINTER → US sl.
1916 ► a tall, thin man or boy → GAUBERT → Sc. obs.
1917 ► a tall, thin man → STREAM-LINE → army sl.
1920 ► a tall, thin person → LAMPER → sl.
1924 ► a tall, thin person → TALL DRINK OF WATER → Amer. dial.
1925 ► a long, thin fellow → LEEKIT → Sc. obs.
1928 ► a tall, thin person → FANG → Sc.
1928 ► a very thin person → GLIPE → Sc.
1928 ► a thin, drooping, unattractive female → HAGGY MOLL → Amer. sl.
1930 ► a nickname for a thin man → BANJER-SHANKS → Amer. dial.
1930 ► a thin or frail person → HATRACK → US sl.
1936 ► a tall, thin person → STRING-BEAN → US sl.
1940 ► an emaciated person or animal; a very thin, bony person → RAWHIDE → Amer. dial.
1940 ► a tall, thin person → STICK → US sl.
1941 ► a thin or skinny person → SCARCE-O-FAT → SCARCE-OF-FAT → Amer. dial.
1941 ► a tall, thin person → STREAK → sl., orig. Aust.
1946 ► a tall, thin person → SAHARA → S. African sl.
1950 ► a thin person → HAIRPIN → US sl.
1950 ► a notably thin person → MISS XYLOPHONE → homosexual sl.
1950 ► a tall, thin person → RAINBOW → W. Indies sl.
1953 ► a tall, thin person → GLASS OF WATER → US sl.
1955 ► a thin, scrawny person → MOP HANDLE → US sl.
1958 ► a very tall, thin person → SCAFFOLD POLE → Eng. sl. (Bk.)
1959 ► a thin girl or woman → SKINNY LIZ → sl.
1960 ► a very thin, lanky person → FENCE RAIL → Amer. dial.
1963 ► a thin, scrawny person → MOPHEAD → US sl.
1966 ► a very thin, bony person → RAWBONES → Amer. dial.
1967 ► a very thin person → OLD SKINFLINT → Amer. dial. 
1967 ► a thin, or sickly person → RINEY → Amer. dial.
1967 ► a very thin person → SKINFLINT → Amer. dial.
1970 ► a very thin woman → OLIVE OYL → Amer. dial.
1971 ► a very thin person → BONEY → US students’ sl. (Bk.)
1971 ► a very thin or skinny person → SPARERIBS → African-American sl.
1972 ► a tall, thin man → TANTERWALLOPS → Sc. 
1975 ► a tall, thin person → LONG-LEGGED DRINK OF WATER → Amer. sl.
1984 ► a thin person → BARE-BRISKET → sl. (Bk.)
1984 ► a thin man → SCALY BLOKE → NZ sl.
1991 ► a fashionable young woman, with clothes and hair suggesting a ragged style, characterized by extreme thinness and apparent fragility → WAIF 
1996 ► a very thin person → BACK AND BELLY → W. Indies
1996 ► a very thin person → BACK-AND-NECK → W. Indies
1997 ► a very thin person → GASHUN → GATION → Ulster sl. (Bk.)
1997 ► a thin, tall, weak young man → WANGLE → Irish sl.
1999 ► a very thin person → PICKER STICK → Amer. dial.
1999 ► a nickname for a tall, thin person → STREAK → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1999 ► a nickname for a tall, thin person → STRETCH → Aust. sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
1905 ► said of a tall, thin person → STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN, LIKE A YARD OF PUMP-WATER → (Bk.)
1940 ► used to describe a very thin person → ALL PIDDLE AND WIND LIKE THE BARBER’S CAT → Aust. & NZ sl.
1940 ► used to describe a very thin person → ALL PISS AND WIND LIKE THE BARBER’S DOG → Aust. & NZ sl.
1951 ► said of a very thin female → SHE’S SO THIN YOU CAN READ A NEWSPAPER THROUGH HER 

VERBS
1000 ► to make thin or lean; to become thin or lean → LENSE → obs.
1826 ► to look thin or half-starved; to have a malnourished appearance → PUT ONE’S MEAT IN AN ILL SKIN 
1904 ► to make a thing thin or small → SCOY → (Bk.)
1914 ► to grow thin → POOR AWAY