bare-boned vs stringy

bare-boned

adj
  • slim; not fleshy; very lean; emaciated 

  • Very basic; having only the essentials and nothing else. 

stringy

adj
  • Wiry, lean, scrawny. 

  • Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue. 

  • Resembling or involving text strings. 

  • Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate. 

  • Composed of, or resembling, string or strings. 

How often have the words bare-boned and stringy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )