stringy russian

• жи́листый

  sinewy, stringy, wiry

• жи́лящий

  sinewy, tough, stringy (of meat)

  cheating, swindling, fleecing

• зажиливаемый

  being made tough, being made sinewy, becoming stringy (of meat/food)

  being hoarded, being withheld, being kept back (due to stinginess/greed)