dry as a bone in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dry as a bone (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:",
          "text": "Wrong! When we got there, it was not only cloudy and cold, but dry as a bone!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "completely dry; totally dry"
      ],
      "id": "en-dry_as_a_bone-en-adj-e2rCG4T-",
      "links": [
        [
          "dry",
          "dry"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) completely dry; totally dry"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bone-dry"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dry as a bone.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dry as a bone"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dry as a bone (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English similes",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:",
          "text": "Wrong! When we got there, it was not only cloudy and cold, but dry as a bone!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "completely dry; totally dry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dry",
          "dry"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) completely dry; totally dry"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bone-dry"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dry as a bone.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/27/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/En-au-dry_as_a_bone.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dry as a bone"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"dry as a bone" meaning in English

Adjective