单词 | boniness |
释义 | boninessn. The quality or condition of being bony; bony nature or character. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having leannessa1000 boninessa1398 macilence?a1425 meagreness?a1425 macies?a1450 meagrec1450 povertya1475 bareness1552 extenuation1576 poorness1577 gauntness1607 lankness1611 macilencya1631 spareness1648 emaceration1656 emaciation1662 skinniness1688 angularity1822 thinness1827 pinchedness1857 scrawniness1863 scragginess1865 wizenedness1887 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxvi. 219 Bycause of here bonynes [L. osseositatis] and synewynes þey [sc. þe schuldres] ben ful strong and myȝti. 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects xxix. 186 Her jaws are a very bone indented like a saw..contrary to Aristotle, and Pliny also, who affirm of all Insects, that they have no boniness in any part. 1695 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 19 27 Some parts of the Body may have acquired some degree of Bonyness. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 774 A model o' a man for muscularity and baneiness [1855 banieness]. a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1862) iii. 50 I could not ride the leagues of a transcontinental trip, barebacking the bonyness of prairie nags. 1884 A. Thomas in Western Morning News 26 Aug. 6/4 The..extra boniness..of bullocks. 1916 Calif. Fish & Game Apr. 63 The boniness of the fish has prejudiced the public against it. 1943 Art Bull. 25 339 The same type of wrinkled old man with exaggerated boniness of hands is seen in the St. Jerome of the Lerma Tomb. 2012 L. Rabinovitz Electric Dreamland v. 143 Jack and Jim..represent extreme and opposing body types of short corpulence and lanky boniness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398 |
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