Bony
['bəʊnɪ] or ['boni]
Definition
(adj.) having bones especially many or prominent bones; 'a bony shad fillet'; 'her bony wrist'; 'bony fish' .
(adj.) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; 'emaciated bony hands'; 'a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys'; 'eyes were haggard and cavernous'; 'small pinched faces'; 'kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration' .
Edited by Barrett--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
Inputed by Allen
Examples
- Mukle—to the rector, Mrs Mukle to her friends—was a hard-featured, bony woman, who looked as if she had been cut out of a deal board. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A tall, bony woman--straight all the way down--in a coarse, blue pelisse, with the waist an inch or two below her arm-pits, responded to the call. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A tall, bony colored woman now entered the kitchen, bearing on her head a basket of rusks and hot rolls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The other was a red-headed, bony man, in top-boots; with a rather ill-favoured countenance, and a turned-up sinister-looking nose. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Rub into the surface of the meat some dry salicylic acid, particularly about the bony and fatty parts; the meat to be afterward cleaned before cooking as usual. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The fish were small and bony, and the potatoes were a little burnt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And as to being regarded in lights, there's bumpey lights as well as bony. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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