natomy n.
a small, thin and/or deformed person.
Pierce Egan’s Life in London 11 Sept. 261/1: Gibbons recommended, from his greyhound condition, he should go into training for a ‘Natommy vivante,’ and go round the country as own brother to the living skeleton. | ||
Bell’s Life in Sydney 16 Oct. 1/2: The portly host is gone, wasted away to ‘natomy’. | ||
Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 180/2: Nattermy (Peoples’). Word for a thin human being. From anatomy. |