Hyphenation of skinny

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word skinny? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

skin-ny

Definitions of skinny:

1.	Confidential information about a topic or person He wanted the inside skinny on the new partner
2.	Being very thin A child with skinny freckled legs A long scrawny neck
3.	Of or relating to or resembling skin
4.	Fitting snugly A tightly-fitting cover Tight-fitting clothes
5.	Giving or spending with reluctance Our cheeseparing administration Very close (or near) with his money A penny-pinching miserly old man

Synonyms of skinny:

adj	scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy, thin, lean
noun	information, info

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.