boned en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /bəʊnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- (Australia) audio
- /boʊnd/ (General-American)
Meanings
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(in-compounds, not-comparable) Having a (specific type of) bone.
hollow-boned; thick-boned
Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.
1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry Kenneth Prior, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., […], page 16, column 3:
- (not-comparable) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
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(not-comparable, slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
- (not-comparable, slang) Broken.
- (not-comparable, of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.
- (not-comparable, of a garment such as a corset or basque) Fitted with bones.
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(not-comparable) Having the legs straightened during a trick.
Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.
2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
Antonyms
Coordinates
Deriveds
raw-boned · preboned · bare-boned · rawboned · twitter-boned · big-boned
Relateds
Synonyms
boneless · up shit's creek · screwed · fucked · deboned
Translations (13)
pt ferrado (beset with difficult or impossible situation) · nb beinløs (meat or fish with bones removed) · hu csontú (having a (specific type of) bone) · it disossato (meat or fish with bones removed) · hu csontozott (meat or fish with bones removed) · it fottuto (beset with difficult or impossible situation) · sv rökt (beset with difficult or impossible situation) · hu csontos (having a (specific type of) bone) · nb beinlaus (meat or fish with bones removed) · scn sdisussatu (meat or fish with bones removed) · nn beinlaus (meat or fish with bones removed) · nb benløs (meat or fish with bones removed) · hu kicsontozott (meat or fish with bones removed)