marrowbone
English
Etymology
Noun
marrowbone (plural marrowbones)
- A bone containing edible marrow.
- (slang, obsolete, in the plural) The knees.
- Tobias Smollett
- Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs[sic], and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.
- 1861, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week (volume 4, page 246)
- So the news of the split between the old and the young one caused plenty of conversation, you may be sure; and will Mr. Robert go down on his marrowbones? and what has he done? was all the question.
- Tobias Smollett
Translations
bone with edible marrow
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