boned
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊnd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /boʊnd/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊnd
Verb
editboned
- simple past and past participle of bone
Adjective
editboned (not comparable)
- (in combination) Having a (specific type of) bone.
- hollow-boned; thick-boned
- 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:
- 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.
- (art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
- (slang) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
- Synonyms: screwed, fucked, up shit's creek
- 2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
- O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
- (slang) Broken.
- (of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.
- (of a garment such as a corset or basque) Fitted with bones.
- (snowboarding) Having the legs straightened during a trick.
- 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
- Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editbeset with difficult or impossible situation
meat or fish with bones removed
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References
edit- “boned”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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editboned (nominative plural boneds)
Declension
editdeclension of boned
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