boner

See also: Boner and böner

English

Etymology

From bone +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
• Homophone: bona (non-rhotic)

Noun

boner (plural boners)

1. (vulgar, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
   • 1973, Sol Gordon, Facts about sex for today's youth‎^[1], →ISBN, page 20:

     Boys often refer to their enlarged penis as an "erection," a "boner," or a "hard on."

   Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?

   1. (vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.

      Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?

2. One who or that which removes bones.
3. (dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]

   He really pulled a boner that time!

   • 1951 August, Bill Finger, “The Joker's Comedy of Errors!”, in Batman, volume 1, number 66, Burbank, California: DC Comics, panel 1, page 5:

     SO! THEY LAUGH AT MY BONER, WILL THEY?? I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM HOW MANY BONERS THE JOKER CAN MAKE!

4. (humorous) A trombonist

Synonyms

• (slang, erect penis): erection, hard-on, stiffy

  see also Thesaurus:erect penis

• (one that removes bones): deboner
• (mistake): blooper, blunder

  See also Thesaurus:error

Derived terms

• bonerific
• bonerism
• boneritis
• boner-killer
• boner pill
• boner-shrinker
• euphoria boner
• hate-boner
• ladyboner
• perma-boner
• permaboner
• rage boner
• semiboner

Related terms

• boned

Translations

who bones

• Danish: udbener c
• Dutch: ontbener

rigid state of penis or clitoris — see erection

erect penis

• Arabic: اِنْتِصَاب (intiṣāb)
• Bikol Central: latog (bcl)
• Catalan: trempera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勃起 (zh) (bóqǐ)

• Danish: boner c, stivert c, stådreng c
• Dutch: stijve (nl) m
• Finnish: seisokki (fi), stondis (fi) (slang), heijari (fi)
• French: gaule (fr) f, trique (fr) f
• Georgian: ამდგარი (amdgari)
• German: Ständer (de) m, Latte (de) f
• Greek: καύλα (el) f (kávla), σηκωμάρα (el) f (sikomára)
• Hebrew: זִקְפָּה (he) f (zikpá)
• Indonesian: ngaceng, konak (id)
• Irish: adharc f
• Italian: erezione (it), durello m
• Japanese: 勃起 (ja) (ぼっき, bokki)
• Korean: 발기 (ko) (balgi)
• Mongolian: босчихсон боов (bosčixson boov)
• Norwegian: ståpikk m
• Polish: kościej m
• Portuguese: pau duro m, tesão (pt) m
• Romanian: erecție (ro) f
• Russian: стоя́к (ru) (stoják)
• Spanish: erección (es), tieso (es) m, empalme (es) m
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} stånd (sv) n
• Ukrainian: стоя́к (stoják)
• Welsh: codiad (cy) m, min m (North), cwnnad m (South)

blunder; silly or stupid mistake

• Bulgarian: гаф (bg) m (gaf)
• Dutch: blunder (nl) m
• Finnish: moka (fi), töppäys
• French: connerie (fr) f
• Macedonian: гаф m (gaf), глу́пава гре́шка f (glúpava gréška)
• Polish: gafa (pl) f
• Spanish: metida de pata (es) f, cagada (es) f (vulgar), pifia (es)

References

• “boner” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Borne, Ebron, -borne, borne, Breon

Danish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀɐ]

Noun

boner c

1. indefinite plural of bon

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnɐ]

Verb

boner

1. present tense of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋɐ]

Verb

boner

1. present tense of bone