scrannie, scranny adjective old, wrinkled, thin and wizened la19-. etymology: possibly connected with Scots skran ‘a term of contempt for a very meagre or unsubstantial thing’ from Norwegian skrane ‘a lean bony figure’; or perhaps a development of English scrawny which OED says is originally US so may have been transported with Scottish Traveller emigrants; form scranny attested by BW |