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Boney   /bˈoʊni/   Listen
Boney

adjective
1.
Having bones especially many or prominent bones.  Synonym: bony.  "Her bony wrist" , "Bony fish"
2.
Being very thin.  Synonyms: scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy.  "A long scrawny neck"






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"Boney" Quotes from Famous Books



... night, I committed a great wrong in the face of God and the law," she said; "that woman," here she lifted her long, boney finger and pointed it towards Mrs. Farnham, "that woman had wronged me and the being I loved better than myself, and this filled me with a heathenish thirst for ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... man has his own weights and measures, but that's queer reckoning.' 'Boney?' said Una. 'You don't mean you've ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling



Words linked to "Boney" :   thin, bonelike, strong-boned, lean, bone, boniness, boned, boneless



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