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scrannel (adj.)
"thin, meager," 1630s; any modern use traces to John Milton ("Lycidas," 124), who may have invented it out of dialectal
scranny
(see
scrawny
). Or from a Scandinavian source akin to Norwegian
skran
"rubbish."
