boney

See also: Boney

English

Adjective

boney (comparative bonier, superlative boniest)

  1. Alternative spelling of bony.
    • 2005, Robert Douglas, “Scared Stiff on a Saturday Night”, in Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Memoir, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 141:
      Slowly, the handle on the only door to his room began to turn. We all knew that the room on the other side was empty – except for the newly purchased skeleton! As the handle turned we heard boney, scrapey sounds. I could feel the hair begin to stand on my head and the back of my neck.

Anagrams

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English *boni, from Old French bon (“good”); compare English bonnie, bonny (“fine, attractive”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔniː/

Noun

boney

  1. (figurative) An able person.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27
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