romancing the 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 ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "From a play on words with the title of the 1984 film Romancing the Stone.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "romancing the bone (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "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 euphemisms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "masturbation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Euphemistic form of masturbation."
      ],
      "id": "en-romancing_the_bone-en-noun-n8cfWgnH",
      "links": [
        [
          "masturbation",
          "masturbation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "form-of",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "romancing the bone"
}

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

{
  "etymology_text": "From a play on words with the title of the 1984 film Romancing the Stone.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "romancing the bone (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "masturbation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Euphemistic form of masturbation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "masturbation",
          "masturbation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic",
        "form-of",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "romancing the bone"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). 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.

"romancing the bone" meaning in English

Noun