skinny drink of water

English

Alternative forms

• scrawny drink of water
• gangly drink of water

Etymology

Based on the earlier long drink of water.

Noun

skinny drink of water (plural skinny drinks of water)

1. (US, slang) A person with a thin, gangly build.
   • 2006, Ivan Bunin, Night of Denial: Stories and Novellas, →ISBN, page 226:

     Some skinny drink of water was raising the most sand of all, going at it whole-hog with one old man.

   • 2011, Christopher Brookmyre, One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night, →ISBN:

     At one point McGregor had coughed and the skinny drink of water involuntarily slid his chair back from the table.

   • 2012, Helena Close, The Clever One, →ISBN:

     I thought earlier that a skinny drink of water like him would be unconscious after a load of shots but no such luck.