Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) of a person, thin; also as n.

1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 146: Some creep with a beard, and a skinny-assed dame.
1972		(con. 1950s) D. Goines Whoreson 149: I know it ain’t over that skinny ass Janet.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 293: Rotten skinny-ass mutha-fuckin bitch!
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 43: At school [...] there was this skinnyass jewish kid Isaacs.
1998		(con. 1960s) G. Washington Blood Brothers 79: Hey you, skinny ass.
2001		Guardian 23 Aug. 34/4: ‘Kelly — don’t go dragging your sorry skinny ass round my front porch in a hurry!’.
2012		C. Stella Rough Riders 15: You kill Eddie Senta and his skinny-ass wife.

see separate entry.

a thin woman.

1911		Chilliwack Progress (BC) 10 May 1/1: ‘Skinny Lizzie’ in which he appeared as amaiden lady in a hobble skirt.
1914		Pittsburgh Dly Post (PA) 16 Aug. 18/2: Everything [...] is first tried on skinny Lizzie.
1936		Dly Herald 2 Dec. 16/7: [advert] They Never cal her ‘Skinny Lizzie’ Now.
1951		Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) 16 Dec. 17/2: [headline] It’s Dagmar, Faye Emerson on Top, Not Skinny Lizzy.
1959		I. & P. Opie Lore and Lang. of Schoolchildren (1977) 189: Thin people inspire almost as many names [...] Skinny Liz, skinny-malink.
1968		Tribune (Seymour, IN) 5 Oct. 6/3: I’m not a ‘Skinny Lizzie.’ Only a ‘Skinny Lizzie’ can wear the twiggy kind of clothes .
1978		Guardian 31 July 8/6: In the Beano [...] Skinny Lizzie 9a scruffy Bisto-kid ina bobbled beret).
2016		Chicago Trib. 21 Feb. 9/3: The fat girl haunts skinny Lizzie, even after she loses the weight.

(US Und.) a sneak thief.

1949

Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

(Irish) very excited, very enthusiastic.

1988		S. Wood Pure Temptation 10: She must be thrilled skinny to have such a supercharged lover.
1996		Irish Times 15 July n.p.: Of course I’m thrilled skinny for the supporters [BS].
1998		J. O’Connor Salesman 161: Well, listen, I’m thrilled skinny for you, Bill. We all are.