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As it gives 1. thin 2. unmelodious, it gives the impression that it is mainly used in a musical context.
Do you use scrawny referring to any aspect of music?
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From etymonline scrannel "thin, meager," 1637; any modern use traces to John Milton ("Lycidas," 124), who may have invented it from dial. scranny (see scrawny). Or from a Scand. source akin to Norw. skran "rubbish." Lycidas And, when they list, their lean and fleshy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said.
Looks like unmelodious may have come first.
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Do you use scrawny referring to any aspect of music? not normally, no. but I wasn't really thinking about the musical connection, anyway, rather the similarity in both meaning and sound of scrannel and scrawny. which I see Myr has addressed. not to mention flannel. which isn't usually scrannel until after it's been well-loved. :¬ )
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Myr : Looks like unmelodious may have come first. While Milton's L'Allegro, il Pensero ed il Moderato has been put to music very melodiously by G.F.Handel. ![smile \:\)](/board/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif) scranny and scrawny for violin music (Dale's link) I can imagine what that might sound like.Thin Katzengejammer.
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hee hee Obscure adj. a thing that dalehileman has never heard before
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Lycidas And, when they list, their lean and fleshy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said.
I clinged to Milton because his poetry is so "melodious" it sort of asks to be set to music and this one I mentionend is a two CD's long a beautiful upliftng experience. Starting with: "Hence, loathed melancholy" and ending two CD's later with "Thy pleasures, Moderation give,". Not one scrannel bit in it.(sorry . I'm not doing the music review , but I recommend it as a lift for low energy.
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