boner

See also: Boner and böner

English

Etymology

From bone +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -əʊnə(r)

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?

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

   He really pulled a boner that time!

Synonyms

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

  see also Thesaurus:erect penis

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

Translations

who bones

• Danish: udbener c

• Dutch: ontbener

rigid state of penis or clitoris — see erection

erect penis

• Arabic: اِنْتِصَاب‎ (intiṣāb)
• Bikol Central: latog
• 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: trique (fr) f, gaule (fr) f
• German: Ständer (de) m, Latte (de) f
• Greek: σηκωμάρα (el) f (sikomára), καύλα (el) f (kávla)
• Hebrew: זקפה‎ (he) f (zikpá)
• Indonesian: ngaceng, konak
• Irish: adharc f

• Italian: erezione (it)
• Japanese: 勃起 (ja) (ぼっき, bokki)
• Korean: 발기 (ko) (balgi)
• Mongolian: босчихсон боов (bosčihson boov)
• Norwegian: ståpikk m
• Polish: gafa (pl) f, wzwód (pl) 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)
• Finnish: moka (fi), töppäys

• French: connerie (fr) f
• Spanish: metida de pata (es) f, cagada (es) f (vulgar), pifia (es)

References

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

Anagrams

• Breon, Ebron, borne

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Danish

Etymology 1

From English boner.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ɔwnɐ]

Noun

boner c (singular definite boneren, plural indefinite bonere)

1. (slang, vulgar) boner (erection)

Synonyms

• erektion, stådreng, stiverik

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀɐ]

Noun

boner c

1. indefinite plural of bon

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnɐ]

Verb

boner

1. present tense of bone

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋɐ]

Verb

boner

1. present tense of bone