bone

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See also: Bone, Bône, boné, bóne, and bône

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).

Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈‎ (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.

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Noun[edit]

A bone.

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)

  1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
    • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."‎[1], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
      Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
  2. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  4. A bonefish.
    • 2019: "Tres Bocas" by Scott Sadil, California Fly Fisher
      The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.
  5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
  7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  8. (figurative) The framework of anything.
  9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
    bone:  
  10. (US, informal) A dollar.
  11. (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
  12. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  13. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
  14. (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
    • 2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140:
      In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.
  15. (figurative) A reward.
    • 1979, Pink Floyd, Nobody Home:
      When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in
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See bone/translations § Noun.

Adjective[edit]

bone (not comparable)

  1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb[edit]

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

  1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
    Synonyms: debone, unbone
    • 1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write‎[2], page 44:
      One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
    • 1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique‎[3], page 73:
      The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
    • 2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food‎[4], page 379:
      Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
    • 2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice‎[5], page 38:
      Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
  2. To fertilize with bone.
    • 1859 July 9, The Economist‎[6], page 758:
      He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
  3. To put whalebone into.
    • 1871, Figure-Training:
      Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.
  4. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
    boning rod
  5. (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
    Related terms: boned, boner
    • 1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:
      We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock
    • 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:
      Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her
    • 2006, Masta Ace (lyrics), “Sick of it all”, in Pariah:
      […] These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't bone
    • 2007, Stacey Deddo, The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode 14, Comedy Central, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor):
      When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after I bone her face.
    • 2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, Comedy Central, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong):
      I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior.
  6. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
    • 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:
      "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".
  7. (usually with "up") To study.
    bone up
    • 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums:
      "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."
  8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
    • c. 1980,, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980)‎[7], archived from the original on 22 June 2004:
      […] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […]
  9. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
    • 1950, Asphalt Jungle:
      Dix Handley: Don't bone me!
      Cobby: Now look, I'm not boning you, Dix—
      Dix: Did I ever welsh?
      Cobby: Nobody said you did—
      Dix: You just boned me!
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Etymology 2[edit]

Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb[edit]

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

  1. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby‎[8], page 127:
      “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”
    • 1915, William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay:
      […] as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
    • 1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, in Songs for the Philologists:
      But troll's old seat is much the same,
      And the bone he boned from its owner
    • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 802:
      Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

Verb[edit]

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

  1. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line[1].
    • 1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary‎[9], page 151:
      Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges.

Etymology 4[edit]

Clipping of trombone

Noun[edit]

bone (plural bones)

  1. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

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Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

bone

  1. plural of boon

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Low German and Middle Low German bōnen, from Old Saxon *bōnian, from Proto-West Germanic *bōnijan (“to polish”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)

  1. to polish

Etymology 2[edit]

Derived from the noun bon (“receipt”), from French bon (“voucher, ticket”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)

  1. to enter (in the cash register)
  2. to charge

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bona (“good”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

bone

  1. well, OK

Hadza[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Sukuma βũne (“four (class XIV)”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone m (masc. plural bunibii, fem. boneko, fem. plural bonebee)

  1. four

Ido[edit]

FWOTD – 30 October 2013

Etymology[edit]

From Esperanto bone (“well”), bona (“good”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

bone

  1. well
    • 2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50:
      To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.
      This would have served well as a proof of our prosperity if it were evenly distributed. (Original English, page 29)

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Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. feminine plural of bono

Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. vocative masculine singular of bonus

References[edit]

  • “bone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “bone”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Lindu[edit]

Noun[edit]

bone

  1. sand

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.

Noun[edit]

bône f

  1. bean

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: boon
    • Afrikaans: boon
      • → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
    • Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
    • → Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
    • → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
    • → Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
    • → Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
    • → Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: bongki
  • Limburgish: boean

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

bone

  1. Alternative form of bane

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bone (plural bones)

  1. Alternative form of bon

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

bone

  1. Alternative form of boon

Etymology 4[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. Alternative form of boon

Etymology 5[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. Alternative form of boun

Northern Sami[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpone/

Verb[edit]

bone

  1. inflection of botnit:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Old French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. nominative feminine singular of bon
  2. oblique feminine singular of bon

Turkish[edit]

Bir yüzme yarışı sırasında sporcunun taktığı bone.

Etymology[edit]

From French bonnet.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bo.ˈne/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ne

Noun[edit]

bone (definite accusative boneyi, plural boneler)

  1. (kıyafetler) bathing cap, swim cap, swimming cap.
    Yüzücünün yarışta taktığı bone çıktı.
    The swimming cap that the swimmer wore during the race came off.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative bone
Definite accusative boneyi
Singular Plural
Nominative bone boneler
Definite accusative boneyi boneleri
Dative boneye bonelere
Locative bonede bonelerde
Ablative boneden bonelerden
Genitive bonenin bonelerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular bonem bonelerim
2nd singular bonen bonelerin
3rd singular bonesi boneleri
1st plural bonemiz bonelerimiz
2nd plural boneniz boneleriniz
3rd plural boneleri boneleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular bonemi bonelerimi
2nd singular boneni bonelerini
3rd singular bonesini bonelerini
1st plural bonemizi bonelerimizi
2nd plural bonenizi bonelerinizi
3rd plural bonelerini bonelerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular boneme bonelerime
2nd singular bonene bonelerine
3rd singular bonesine bonelerine
1st plural bonemize bonelerimize
2nd plural bonenize bonelerinize
3rd plural bonelerine bonelerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular bonemde bonelerimde
2nd singular bonende bonelerinde
3rd singular bonesinde bonelerinde
1st plural bonemizde bonelerimizde
2nd plural bonenizde bonelerinizde
3rd plural bonelerinde bonelerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular bonemden bonelerimden
2nd singular bonenden bonelerinden
3rd singular bonesinden bonelerinden
1st plural bonemizden bonelerimizden
2nd plural bonenizden bonelerinizden
3rd plural bonelerinden bonelerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular bonemin bonelerimin
2nd singular bonenin bonelerinin
3rd singular bonesinin bonelerinin
1st plural bonemizin bonelerimizin
2nd plural bonenizin bonelerinizin
3rd plural bonelerinin bonelerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular boneyim bonelerim
2nd singular bonesin bonelersin
3rd singular bone
bonedir 		boneler
bonelerdir
1st plural boneyiz boneleriz
2nd plural bonesiniz bonelersiniz
3rd plural boneler bonelerdir

Further reading[edit]

Venetian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bone

  1. feminine plural of bon
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