boned

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊnd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnd

Verb

boned

1. simple past and past participle of bone

Adjective

boned (not comparable)

2. (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.

4. (art) Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
6. (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.

8. (slang) Broken.
10. (of meat or fish) Having had the bones removed before cooking.

    Synonyms: deboned; boneless (usually synonymous)

    Antonym: unboned

    Hyponym: preboned

    Coordinate terms: skinned, skinless

12. (of a garment such as a corset or basque) Fitted with bones.
14. (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

• bare-boned
• big-boned
• preboned
• rawboned
• raw-boned

 

Related terms

• boner

Translations

having a (specific type of) bone

• Hungarian: csontos (hu), csontú (hu)

beset with difficult or impossible situation

• Italian: fottuto (it) m, fottuta (it) f
• Portuguese: ferrado (pt) (slang)

meat or fish with bones removed

• Hungarian: csontozott, kicsontozott (hu)
• Italian: disossato (it) m, disossata (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beinløs, beinlaus, benløs

  Nynorsk: beinlaus

• Sicilian: sdisussatu m, sdisussata f

References

• “boned”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Boden, Bonde

Volapük

Noun

boned (nominative plural boneds)

1. order, purchase

Declension

declension of boned

	singular	plural
nominative	boned	boneds
genitive	boneda	bonedas
dative	bonede	bonedes
accusative	bonedi	bonedis
vocative 1	o boned!	o boneds!
predicative 2	bonedu	bonedus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• bonedabuk
• bonedazöt