Слово "stringy". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy.

But its fibers were tough. It was composed of stringy filaments saturated with water, like the berries, and devoid of nourishment.

Oh, yes, thought Scarlett, drearily, some widows do remarry eventually, when they are old and stringy. Though Heaven knows how they manage it, with their neighbors watching.

            Apart from the chief surgeon, Lev Leonidovich, a very tall man with long arms, this aged, stringy woman did all the operations in the clinic. She sawed off limbs, put tracheotomy tubes in the wall of the throat, took out stomachs, penetrated to every part of the intestines, plundered the inside of the pelvic girdle. And towards the end of the day's operations it might fall to her lot to remove one or two sets of cancerous lacteal glands - an uncomplicated job that she had mastered like a virtuoso.

Even when the chicken drips were wet and stringy and made her fingers stick together, little Peggy gave no never mind.

Dripping with exertion and excitement Bormenthal leapt to a glass jar and removed from it two more wet, dangling testicles, their short, moist, stringy vesicles dangling like elastic in the hands of the professor and his assistant.