noun
- Confidential information about a topic or person.
- usage: "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
adjective
- Being very thin.
- usage: "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
- synonyms: scraggy, boney, scrawny, underweight, weedy
- Of or relating to or resembling skin.
- Fitting snugly.
- usage: "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"
- synonyms: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting
- Giving or spending with reluctance.
- usage: "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
- synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching
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