"boneless" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boneless.wav Forms: more boneless [comparative], most boneless [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bonles}} Middle English bonles, {{inh|en|ang|bānlēas|t=boneless}} Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*bainalausaz}} Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, {{suffix|en|bone|less}} bone + -less, {{cog|sco|baneless|t=boneless}} Scots baneless (“boneless”), {{cog|nl|beenloos|t=boneless; legless}} Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), {{cog|de|beinlos|t=legless}} German beinlos (“legless”), {{cog|sv|benlös|t=boneless}} Swedish benlös (“boneless”), {{cog|is|beinlaus|t=boneless}} Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} boneless (comparative more boneless, superlative most boneless)
  1. Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating. Categories (topical): Food and drink Translations (without bones): ἀνόστεος (anósteos) (Ancient Greek), обезкостен (obezkosten) (Bulgarian), desossat (Catalan), luuton (Finnish), ruodoton (note: of fish) (Finnish), désossé (French), schier (German), díchnámhaithe (Irish), gan chnámha (Irish), disossato (Italian), exos (Latin), exossis (Latin), beinløs (Norwegian Bokmål), beinlaus (Norwegian Bokmål), benløs (Norwegian Bokmål), beinlaus (Norwegian Nynorsk), كمیكسز (kemiksiz) (Ottoman Turkish), bezkostny (Polish), desossado (Portuguese), dezosat (Romanian), deshuesado (Spanish), benfri (Swedish), hukhok (Tagalog), kemiksiz (Turkish), diasgwrn (Welsh), heb esgyrn (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-boneless-en-adj-0fllXXvf Disambiguation of Food and drink: 100 0 0 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'without bones': 55 39 6
  2. (US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones Tags: US, humorous
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  3. (chiefly British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve. Tags: British, figuratively Synonyms: gutless, spineless, cowardly
    Sense id: en-boneless-en-adj-zVMAi6kZ Categories (other): British English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: boneless lean beef trimmings, bonelessly, bonelessness, semiboneless
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        "3": "bānlēas",
        "t": "boneless"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English bānlēas (“boneless”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*bainalausaz"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bone",
        "3": "less"
      },
      "expansion": "bone + -less",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sco",
        "2": "baneless",
        "t": "boneless"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots baneless (“boneless”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "beenloos",
        "t": "boneless; legless"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "beinlos",
        "t": "legless"
      },
      "expansion": "German beinlos (“legless”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "benlös",
        "t": "boneless"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish benlös (“boneless”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "beinlaus",
        "t": "boneless"
      },
      "expansion": "Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more boneless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most boneless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boneless (comparative more boneless, superlative most boneless)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "unboned"
        },
        {
          "word": ";"
        },
        {
          "word": "bone-in"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English links with manual fragments",
        "English terms with collocations",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonyms: boned, deboned"
        },
        {
          "text": "boneless chicken",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "boneless, skinless chicken",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "boneless wings",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XIV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1906 February 26, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called \"boneless hams,\" which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meat",
          "meat"
        ],
        [
          "poultry",
          "poultry"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English humorous terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Without pizza crust; without pizza bones"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "crust",
          "crust"
        ],
        [
          "pizza bones",
          "pizza bones"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, humorous) Without pizza crust; without pizza bones"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "humorous"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 18, in Uneasy Money:",
          "text": "I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May",
          "text": "I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit … which I most desired to see was the one described as \"The Boneless Wonder.\" My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 November 11, Graham Searjeant, “Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders”, in The Times, London:",
          "text": "Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):",
          "text": "In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that \"his handshake is a boneless fadeaway[\"].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking strength, courage, or resolve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strength",
          "strength"
        ],
        [
          "courage",
          "courage"
        ],
        [
          "resolve",
          "resolve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gutless"
        },
        {
          "word": "spineless"
        },
        {
          "word": "cowardly"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obezkosten",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "обезкостен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "desossat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "luuton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "note": "of fish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "ruodoton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "désossé"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "schier"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "anósteos",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "ἀνόστεος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "díchnámhaithe"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "gan chnámha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "disossato"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "exos"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "exossis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "beinløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "beinlaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "benløs"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "beinlaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "kemiksiz",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "كمیكسز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "bezkostny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "desossado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "dezosat"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "deshuesado"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "benfri"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "hukhok"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "kemiksiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "diasgwrn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "without bones",
      "word": "heb esgyrn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "boneless"
}

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