boner

English

Etymology

from bone +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nɚ/
• Rhymes: -əʊnə(r)

Noun

boner (plural boners)

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

   He really pulled a boner that time!

3. (slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
   • 1973, Sol Gordon, Facts about sex for today's youth^[1], ISBN 0381996484, 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?

Synonyms

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

  See Wikisaurus:erection

• (mistake): blooper, blunder

Related terms

• bone head
• boney
• boning knife
• boneration

Translations

who bones

• Danish: udbener
• Dutch: ontbener

erect penis

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勃起 (zh) (bóqǐ)

• Dutch: stijve (nl) m
• Finnish: seisokki (fi), stondis (fi) (slang), heijari (fi)
• French: trique (fr) f, gaule (fr) f
• German: Ständer (de) m, Latte (de) f
• Hebrew: זקפה (he) f (zikpá)
• Indonesian: ngaceng, konak

• Italian: erezione (it)
• Norwegian: ståpikk m
• Portuguese: pau duro m
• Romanian: erecție (ro) f
• Russian: стояк (ru) (stoják)
• Spanish: erección (es), tieso (es) m
• Swedish: stånd (sv)

blunder; silly or stupid mistake

• Bulgarian: гаф (bg) m (gaf)

• Finnish: moka (fi), töppäys

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• borne

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Danish

Noun

boner c

1. plural indefinite of bon