skinnies
- 1Skinny jeans, cut to fit tightly from the hip to the ankle.
He paired ripped skinnies with a leather jacket and boots.
Some shoppers have traded their skinnies for looser, wide-leg styles.
Note
A short way of saying skinny jeans, and it behaves the way jeans and trousers do: plural in form, counted in pairs (two pairs of skinnies), and plural in agreement, so the verb follows suit (my skinnies are ripped at the knee).
- 2Plural of skinny.
The barista lined up three skinnies and a regular latte on the counter.
Cross-country courses test accuracy with skinnies, narrow fences a horse can easily run past.
Note
The y turns to -ies after a consonant, as in puppies. Only the countable meanings take the plural: two skinnies are two low-fat coffees, and the skinnies on a cross-country course are narrow fences. The gossip meaning, as in getting the skinny on someone, and the naked state of in the skinny stay singular.
skinnies is a form of skinny
skinny, noun: The details or facts about something, especially ones learned through gossip or rumor. Full entry
- Forms
- skinnyskinnies plural
- Spelling
- skinny → skinnies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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