pencil-necked vs slender

pencil-necked

adj

  • Insubstantial; weak. 

  • Having a very thin neck. 

slender

adj

  • meagre; deficient 

  • Palatalized. 

  • Thin; slim. 

How often have the words pencil-necked and slender occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )