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boney

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bon·ey  (bn)
adj.
Variant of bony.
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Adj.1.boney - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"
bony
2.boneyboney - being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"
scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare


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"I do not wish," she writes in her own handwriting, "to regard myself, nor yet to be regarded, in that boney light".
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
The boy flicked the big, boney horse with his whip and looked thoughtful.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
His face assumed an expression of incredulity as he gazed, and he passed his boney hand over his eyes.
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