bone

head

bone (imperative bon, infinitive at bone, present tense boner, past tense bonede, perfect tense har bonet)

bon (imperative)
at bone (infinitive)
boner (present)
bonede (past)
har bonet (perfect)

From Low German and Middle Low German bōnen, from Old Saxon *bōnian, from Proto-West Germanic *bōnijan (“to polish”).


bone

Derived from the noun bon (“receipt”), from French bon (“voucher, ticket”).


bone

Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 275, column 1:

(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.

2019, Scott Sadil, “Tres Bocas”, in California Fly Fisher:

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

bone:

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.

Speakin' on the phone, for hours on end / On the bone from just listenin', and then:

2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:

Let's head to the casino and roll them bones!

The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.

1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:

(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.

In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.

2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140:

When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in

en-noun

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)

sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), 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.


bone

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.


bone

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.

1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44:

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.

1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73:

Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.

2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379:

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.

2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice, page 38:

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.

boning rod

(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.

1894, Catullus, translated by Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus, section 58:

We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clock

1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J:

Stash in the buildin wit this chick named Alona / From Daytona, when I was young I wants to bone her

1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy:

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.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 153:

[…]These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don't bone

2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics), Pariah:

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.

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:

I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I will bone Travis Junior.

2007, Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode 11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central:

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.

2012, Gavin McInnes, The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 89:

(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).

“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”.

1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48:

(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

bone up

“I know it. You do not study.” “What’s the use of boning all the time! I wasn’t cut out for it.”

1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums:

[…] the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits […]

c. 1980, F. van Zy, SADF National Service (1979-1980), archived from the original on 2004-06-22:

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!

en-verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

bones (present singular third-person)
boning (participle present)
boned (participle past)
boned (past)


bone

GWF, well almost anyway, 40, bone-lonely, desperately needs a friend in Southern Maine.

1979 December 22, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 18:

Used before an adjective as an intensifier


bone

“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”

1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, page 127:

[…]as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.

1915, William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay:

But troll's old seat is much the same,
And the bone he boned from its owner

1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, in Songs for the Philologists:

Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 802:

(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

Unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.


bone

Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges.

1846, W. M. Buchanan, A Technological Dictionary, page 151:

Edward H[enry] Knight
w:Edward H. Knight

(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Borrowed from French bornoyer (“to look at with one eye, to sight”), from borgne (“one-eyed”).


bone

head

bone m (masc. plural bunibii, fem. boneko, fem. plural bonebee)

boneko (feminine)
bonebee (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Sukuma βũne (“four (class XIV)”).


bone

2008, Margrit Kennedy, Pekunio sen interesti ed inflaciono, tr. by Alfred Neussner of Interest and Inflation Free Money, page 50

This would have served well as a proof of our prosperity if it were evenly distributed. (Original English, page 29)

To pruvas maxim bone nia bonstando, se ica sumo distributesus nur proxime pro-porcionale.

From Esperanto bone (“well”), bona (“good”) + -e.


bone

desctree

Dutch: boon
Afrikaans: boon
→ Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
Berbice Creole Dutch: bono
Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)
→ Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)
→ Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)
→ Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
→ Petjo: bontjies, boontjies
→ Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
→ Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)
→ Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
→ Caribbean Hindustani: bongki

Limburgish: boean

From Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu.


bone

bōne (canonical feminine)
ein (indefinite nominative singular)
diu (definite nominative singular)
bōne (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
bōne (nominative noun plural)
einer (genitive indefinite singular)
dër (definite genitive singular)
bōne (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
bōnen (genitive noun plural)
einer (dative indefinite singular)
dër (dative definite singular)
bōne (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
bōnen (dative noun plural)
eine (accusative indefinite singular)
die (accusative definite singular)
bōne (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
bōne (accusative noun plural)
ein (indefinite nominative singular)
diu (definite nominative singular)
bōne (nominative noun singular)
die (definite nominative plural)
bōnen (nominative noun plural)
einer (genitive indefinite singular)
dër (definite genitive singular)
bōnen (genitive noun singular)
dër (definite genitive plural)
bōnen (genitive noun plural)
einer (dative indefinite singular)
dër (dative definite singular)
bōnen (dative noun singular)
dën (dative definite plural)
bōnen (dative noun plural)
eine (accusative indefinite singular)
die (accusative definite singular)
bōnen (accusative noun singular)
die (accusative definite plural)
bōnen (accusative noun plural)

Alemannic German: Bone

Central Franconian: Bunn
Hunsrik: Bohn
Luxembourgish: Boun

East Central German: Bunn

German: Bohne

Rhine Franconian: Bohn

Frankfurterisch: [b̥õːn]

Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn

From Old High German bōna, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.


bone

inflection of botnit:
present indicative connegative

inflection of botnit:
second-person singular imperative

inflection of botnit:
imperative connegative


bone

Yüzücünün yarışta taktığı bone çıktı.

The swimming cap that the swimmer wore during the race came off.

(kıyafetler) bathing cap, swim cap, swimming cap.

head

bone (definite accusative boneyi, plural boneler)

boneyi (accusative definite)
boneler (plural)
bone (nominative singular)
boneler (nominative plural)
boneyi (accusative definite singular)
boneleri (accusative definite plural)
boneye (dative singular)
bonelere (dative plural)
bonede (locative singular)
bonelerde (locative plural)
boneden (ablative singular)
bonelerden (ablative plural)
bonenin (genitive singular)
bonelerin (genitive plural)
bonem (first-person nominative singular)
bonelerim (first-person nominative singular)
bonen (nominative second-person singular)
bonelerin (nominative second-person singular)
bonesi (nominative singular third-person)
boneleri (nominative singular third-person)
bonemiz (first-person nominative plural)
bonelerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
boneniz (nominative plural second-person)
boneleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
boneleri (nominative plural third-person)
bonemi (accusative definite first-person singular)
bonelerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
boneni (accusative definite second-person singular)
bonelerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
bonesini (accusative definite singular third-person)
bonelerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
bonemizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
bonelerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
bonenizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
bonelerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
bonelerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
boneme (dative first-person singular)
bonelerime (dative first-person singular)
bonene (dative second-person singular)
bonelerine (dative second-person singular)
bonesine (dative singular third-person)
bonelerine (dative singular third-person)
bonemize (dative first-person plural)
bonelerimize (dative first-person plural)
bonenize (dative plural second-person)
bonelerinize (dative plural second-person)
bonelerine (dative plural third-person)
bonemde (first-person locative singular)
bonelerimde (first-person locative singular)
bonende (locative second-person singular)
bonelerinde (locative second-person singular)
bonesinde (locative singular third-person)
bonelerinde (locative singular third-person)
bonemizde (first-person locative plural)
bonelerimizde (first-person locative plural)
bonenizde (locative plural second-person)
bonelerinizde (locative plural second-person)
bonelerinde (locative plural third-person)
bonemden (ablative first-person singular)
bonelerimden (ablative first-person singular)
bonenden (ablative second-person singular)
bonelerinden (ablative second-person singular)
bonesinden (ablative singular third-person)
bonelerinden (ablative singular third-person)
bonemizden (ablative first-person plural)
bonelerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
bonenizden (ablative plural second-person)
bonelerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
bonelerinden (ablative plural third-person)
bonemin (first-person genitive singular)
bonelerimin (first-person genitive singular)
bonenin (genitive second-person singular)
bonelerinin (genitive second-person singular)
bonesinin (genitive singular third-person)
bonelerinin (genitive singular third-person)
bonemizin (first-person genitive plural)
bonelerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
bonenizin (genitive plural second-person)
bonelerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
bonelerinin (genitive plural third-person)
boneyim (first-person singular)
bonelerim (first-person singular)
bonesin (second-person singular)
bonelersin (second-person singular)
bone (singular third-person)
bonedir (singular third-person)
boneler (singular third-person)
bonelerdir (singular third-person)
boneyiz (first-person plural)
boneleriz (first-person plural)
bonesiniz (plural second-person)
bonelersiniz (plural second-person)
boneler (plural third-person)
bonelerdir (plural third-person)