bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊn/
enpr: bōn
ipa: /boʊn/
ipa: /bəʉn/
ipa: /bɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: bones
form: boning
form: boned
form: boned
form: bane
form: byen
Etymology: From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bian, Biin, biinj (“bone; leg”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
Senses: examples: text: One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
ref: 1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44:
text: The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
ref: 1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73:
text: Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
ref: 2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379:
text: Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
ref: 2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice, page 38:
synonyms: debone
unbone
coordinate_terms: gut#Verb
skin#Verb
glosses: To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
examples: text: He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
ref: 1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758:
glosses: To fertilize with bone.
examples: text: Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.
ref: 1871, Figure-Training:
glosses: To put whalebone into.
examples: text: boning rod
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
examples: text: O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.
ref: 1894, Catullus, translated by Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus, section 58:
text: We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clock
ref: 1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:
text: Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her
ref: 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:
text: We were sitting in the student union between classes, and I had just been trying to decide which one of them I was gonna bone first that night.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 153:
text: […]These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't bone
ref: 2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah:
text: When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after I bone her face.
ref: 2007, Stacey Deddo, The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode 14, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor), via Comedy Central:
text: I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior.
ref: 2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central:
text: I'd been boning French chicks for a while now and was always shocked to see how many able-bodied young white women had no qualms about being on welfare.
ref: 2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:
synonyms: word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse (with).
raw_tags: of a man
examples: text: “You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.
ref: 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:
glosses: To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
raw_tags: in Aboriginal culture
examples: text: bone up
text: “I know it. You do not study.” “What’s the use of boning all the time! I wasn’t cut out for it.”
ref: 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums:
glosses: To study.
raw_tags: with "up"
examples: text: […] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […]
ref: c. 1980, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980), archived from the original on 22 Jun 2004:
glosses: To polish boots to a shiny finish.
examples: text: Dix Handley: Don’t bone me!
Cobby: Now look, I’m not boning you, Dix—
Dix: Did I ever welsh?
Cobby: Nobody said you did—
Dix: You just boned me!
ref: 1950, Asphalt Jungle:
glosses: To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
Derived terms: bonable
bone down
bone out
boning
boning rod
debone
unbone