atomy
/ˈatəmi
/noun (plural atomies) archaic
A skeleton or emaciated body.How could the graceful Countess Olivia fall in love with a little puerile atomy who stutters and stumbles?
Origin
Late 16th century: from anatomy, taken as an atomy.
Rhymes
- metal detectorist
- metal drift
- metalegal
- metalepsis
- metaleptic
- metaleptical
- metaleptically
- metal-evaporated tape
- metalevel
- metal fatigue
- metalflake
- metalforming
- metal gage
- metal gauge
- metalhead
- metalick
- metalik
- metalimnetic
- metalimnic
- metalimnion
- metalingual
- metalinguist
- metalinguistic
- metalinguistically
- metalinguistic awareness