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She was as poor and rawny as ever, weighing no more than a periwinkle.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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She was as poor and rawny as ever, weighing no more than a periwinkle.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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She was as poor and rawny as ever, weighing no more than a periwinkle.
Secret of the Night Ponies JOAN HIATT HARLOW 2009
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_ Having little flesh: a thin person, whose bones are conspicuous, is said to be rawny.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Your Punt’s Per-fume’s only in the hatpinny shop beside the reek of the rawny.
Finnegans Wake 2006
hernesheir commented on the word rawny
(adj): big and awkward; raw and bony; big-boned; loose-jointed. Also raw-bone, rawny-boned. NE US especially ME, NH. (Dictionary of Regional English Dialects)
January 13, 2009