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bon·y

or bon·ey (bō′nē)

adj. bon·i·er, bon·i·est also bon·ey·er or bon·ey·est

1. Of, relating to, resembling, or consisting of bone.

2. Having an internal skeleton of bones.

3. Full of bones: a bony fillet of fish.

a. Having prominent or protruding bones: a bony wrist.

b. Lean; scrawny.

bon′i·ness n.

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bony

(ˈbəʊnɪ)

adj, bonier or boniest

1. resembling or consisting of bone or bones

2. having many bones

3. having prominent bones: bony cheeks.

4. thin or emaciated: a bony old woman.

ˈboniness n

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bon•y

(ˈboʊ ni)

adj. bon•i•er, bon•i•est.

1. of or like bone.

2. full of bones.

3. having prominent bones; big-boned.

4. skinny; gaunt; emaciated.

[1350–1400]

bon′i•ness, n.

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Adj.	1.	bony - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare
	2.	bony - composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" osseous, osteal
	3.	bony - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" boney boneless - being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"

bony

adjective thin, lean, skinny, angular, gaunt, skeletal, haggard, emaciated, scrawny, undernourished, cadaverous, rawboned, macilent (rare) an old man with a bony face and white hair

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bony

adjective

Having little flesh or fat on the body:

angular, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin, twiggy, weedy.

Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail.

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huesudo óseo

bony

[ˈbəʊnɪ] ADJ (bonier (compar) (boniest (superl)))

1. (= having bones) → huesudo; [fish] → espinoso, lleno de espinas

2. (= like bone) → óseo

3. (= thin) [person] → flaco, delgado

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bone

(bəun) noun

1. the hard substance forming the skeleton of man, animals etc. Bone decays far more slowly than flesh.hueso

2. a piece of this substance. She broke two of the bones in her foot.hueso

verb

to take the bones out of (fish etc). deshuesar

ˈbony adjective

1. like bone. a bony substance.huesudo

2. full of bones. This fish is very bony. lleno de huesos

3. thin. bony fingers.esquelético

bone china

china in whose manufacture the ashes of burnt bones are used. porcelana

bone idle

very lazy. He could find a job but he's bone idle.holgazán, vago

a bone of contention

a cause of argument or quarrelling. Ownership of the boat was a bone of contention between the two men for many years. manzana de la discordia

have a bone to pick with (someone)

to have something to argue about with (a person). tener una cuenta que ajustar con (alguien)

to the bone

1. thoroughly and completely. I was chilled to the bone.hasta los huesos, hasta los tuétanos

2. to the minimum. I've cut my expenses to the bone. al mínimo

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