marrowbone en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From marrow + bone.
Meanings
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A bone containing edible marrow.
And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:
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(humorous, in-plural) The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling.
So the news of the split between the old and the young one caused plenty of conversation, you may be sure; and will Mr. Robert go down on his marrowbones? and what has he done? was all the question.
1861, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, volume 4, page 246:Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs^([sic]), and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 56, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:They would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| marrowbones | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (22)
sv märgpipa (bone with edible marrow) · fi ydinluu (bone with edible marrow) · ga cnámh smeara (bone with edible marrow) · se cabbi (bone with edible marrow) · de Markknochen (bone with edible marrow) · hy ծուծոսկր (bone with edible marrow) · sv märgben (bone with edible marrow) · sco marrae-bane (bone with edible marrow) · sco merkie-bane (bone with edible marrow) · hu velőscsont (bone with edible marrow) · el μεδουλιώδες οστό (bone with edible marrow) · ru мозгова́я кость (bone with edible marrow) · it osso con midollo (bone with edible marrow) · et üdikont (bone with edible marrow) · it osso buco (bone with edible marrow) · fr os à moelle (bone with edible marrow) · es tuétano (bone with edible marrow) · es hueso con tuétano (bone with edible marrow) · it ossobuco (bone with edible marrow) · nl mergbeen (bone with edible marrow) · pl kość szpikowa (bone with edible marrow) · lmo òss bus (bone with edible marrow)