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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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skinny

/ˈskɪni/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈskɪni/
skinny
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

skin - ny -> skinny

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ပိန်ပိန် ခြောက်ခြောက်။ အဆီနည်းသော။ အဝတ်မပါပဲ (ရေကူးခြင်း)။ skinnier, skinniest (n) ကောလဟလ များ၏ အသေးစိတ်။ ငဖောင်ရိုး skinnies

Full entry

skin /skÇn/ n

၁။ [U,C usu sing ] အသားအရေ။ အရေပြား။ အရေခွံ။ have a dark/an olive/a fair skin ❍ oily/dry skin ❍ She has beautiful skin. ❍ a skin disease.
၂။ [C,U] (often in compounds) သားရေ။ (အ)ရေခွံ။ skins laid out to dry ❍ a rabbit-skin. Compare FUR ၁, HIDE2 See also CALFSKIN, PIGSKIN, SHEEPSKIN, WINESKIN
၃။ (က) [C,U] (သစ်သီးသစ်ဥ)အခွံ။ a banana skin ❍ onion/potato skins. Compare PEEL n , RIND, ZEST ၃ (ခ) [C,U] (ဝက်အူချောင်း စသည်လုပ်ရန်)အရေခွံ။ Prick the skins before grilling. (ဂ) [C sing ] ကိုယ်ထည်အခွံ။ the metal skin of an aircraft.
၄။ [C,U] အရည်ထု၏ မျက်နှာပြင်တွင် တင်းလာသော ကြက်တက်ရည် အပျဉ်အပြန့်။ the skin on a milk pudding ❍ a skin forming on paint in a pot.
v (-nn- ) (က) အရေခွံခွာသည်။ အရေဆုတ်သည်။ skin a rabbit. (ခ) အရေစုတ်၊ အရေလန်သည်။
I skinned my elbow against the wall.
❏ be no skin off one's nose [IDM ] (infml ) ဘာမျှဖြစ် မသွား။ ကိစ္စမရှိ။ အကြောင်းမဟုတ်။ It's no skin off my nose if you waste your money.
❏ by the skin of one's teeth [IDM ] (infml ) ပွတ်ကာ သီကာ။ pass an exam by the skin off one's teeth ❍ He escaped death by the skin of his teeth.
❏ get under sb's skin [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ ကျွဲမြီးတိုစေ သည်။ His endless complaints are getting under my skin.
၂။ သဘောတွေ့သည်။ The charm of the place soon gets under your skin.
❏ have got sb under one's skin [IDM ] (infml ) အလွန် စွဲလမ်းငြိတွယ်သည်။ တမ်းတမ်းစွဲဖြစ်သည်။
❏ skin sb alive [IDM ] [ဥ] (အရေခွံ)နွှာသည်။ Your father'll skin you alive when he sees this! ဒါ တွေ့သွားလို့ ကတော့ မင့်အဖေမင့်ကို ကောင်းကောင်း နွှာပြီးသားပဲ။
❏ (nothing but / all) skin and bone [IDM ] (infml ) အရိုးပေါ်အရေတင်။ He was all skin and bone after his illness.
❏ skin-deep adj အပေါ်ယံမျှဖြစ်သော။ ထင်သလောက် အရေး မကြီးသော။ ဟန်လုပ်သော။ Any resentment he shows towards you is only skin-deep.
❏ skin-diving n [U] အထူးရေငုပ်ဝတ်စုံမပါဘဲ အသက်ရှူဘူး မျှဖြင့် ရေအောက်၌ သွားလာသည့် အားကစားနည်း။ skin-diver n
❏ skin-graft n အရေပြားအစားထိုး ကုထုံး။
❏ -skinned (forming compound adjs ) အရေ… သော။ အသား…သော။ dark-/light-skinned ❍ pink-skinned. See also THICK-SKINNED
❏ skinny adj (-ier , -iest)
၁။ (infml usu derog ) ပိန် ကပ်ကပ်။ ပိန်ခြောက်ခြောက်။ a skinny child ❍ skinny legs.
၂။ ကိုယ်ကျပ်၊ အသားကပ်(အဝတ်)။ a skinny black jumper. ❍ THIN
❏ skin-tight adj အသားကပ်၊ ကိုယ်ကျပ်(အဝတ်)။ a skin-tight dress ❍ Her blouse was skin-tight.
❏ (have) a thin/ thick skin [IDM ] [ဥ] အရေပါးသည်။ အရေထူသည်။ You need a thick skin to be a politician. နိုင်ငံရေးသမား ဟာအရေထူမှ။

More examples
  • She has beautiful soft skin.
  • Most snakes shed their skin several times a year.
  • [fair/dark/olive skin] : I have fair skin that burns very easily.
  • [dry/oily/sensitive skin] : A lotion specially designed for oily skin
  • [skin peels] : I got sunburnt and now my skin is peeling.
  • Skin colour
  • A skin disease
  • Skin cancer
  • A leopard skin rug
  • Banana skins are yellow.
  • Cover the custard to prevent a skin forming as it cools.
Synonyms
hide, pelt, fur, coat, abrade, bare, bare-skinned, bareskinned, bark, buck naked, carapace, case, casing, cast, coating, covering, crust, cut off, cutis, decorticate, derma, dermis, desquamate, dishabille, epidermis, excoriate, exuviate, fell, film, flay, gall, garmentless, graze, hull, husk, in birthday suit, in one's birthday suit, in one's skin, in the altogether, integument, jacket, lay bare, membrane, naked as a jaybird, nude, outer covering, outside, parchment, pare, peel, pod, pull off, remove, rind, scale, scalp, scrape, scuff, shave, sheath, sheathing, shed, shell, shelling, shuck, slough, stark naked, stark-naked, starkers, strip, surface, tegument, trim, unattired, unclad, undraped, vellum, wearing only a smile, without a stitch
Antonyms
body, center, core, cover, inside, interior, middle
Cross references
hidepeltfurcoatabradebarebare-skinnedbareskinnedbarkbuck nakedcarapacecasecasingcastcoatingcoveringcrustcut offcutisdecorticatedermadermisdesquamatedishabilleepidermisexcoriateexuviatefell
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