boning
/ˈboʊnɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.50 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "How is it possible that somebody who looks like Thinny can have sex with so many women? Where are all these girls out there begging for bonings in cars?"
- "She had substantial boning and a wider pelvic girdle than our larger bitch."
- "She had a perfect nose, narrow and faintly sloped at the end to give it character. It fit the delicate boning of her face, the slightly raised cheekbones one could only fully appreciate in profile, the generous mouth."
- "This is a breed that's a medium size with a short, cobby body and heavy boning."
- "The long-continued good result of the bonings of the Cheshire farmers, effects which are said to be perceivable during the continuance of a lease, demonstrates that at least one known fertilizer is useful not merely for a season; and, moreover, as the enlightened Cheshire landlords have been long wont even to aid their tenantry in the requisite outlay for the bones, this further seems to prove that the land is not finally rendered less valuable by the more bountiful, and consequently more exhausting crops of grass that it is thus enabled to produce."
- "Of the 84½ acres of pasture, 55 acres is one field, formerly eight, a mile distant from homestead ; it presents a good herbage, the result of repeated bonings."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈboʊnɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/