单词 | bare-boned |
释义 | bare-bonedadj. 1. Having the bones completely exposed; fleshless. Also in weakened use: so thin that the bones can be seen under the skin; extremely lean, gaunt, emaciated. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > thin leanc1000 thinc1000 swonga1300 meagrea1398 empty?c1400 (as) thin (also lean, rank) as a rakec1405 macilent?a1425 rawc1425 gauntc1440 to be skin and bone (also bones)c1450 leany?a1475 swampc1480 scarrya1500 pinched1514 extenuate1528 lean-fleshed1535 carrion-lean1542 spare1548 lank1553 carrion1565 brawn-fallen1578 raw-bone1590 scraggeda1591 thin-bellied1591 rake-lean1593 bare-boned1594 forlorn1594 Lented1594 lean-looked1597 shotten herring1598 spiny1598 starved1598 thin-belly1598 raw-boned1600 larbar1603 meagry?1603 fleshless1605 scraggy1611 ballow1612 lank-leana1616 skinnya1616 hagged1616 scraggling1616 carrion-like1620 extenuated1620 thin-gutted1620 haggard1630 scrannel1638 leanisha1645 skeletontal1651 overlean1657 emaciated1665 slank1668 lathy1672 emaciate1676 nithered1691 emacerated1704 lean-looking1713 scranky1735 squinny-gut(s)1742 mauger1756 squinny1784 angular1789 etiolated1791 as thin (also lean) as a rail1795 wiry1808 slink1817 scranny1820 famine-hollowed1822 sharp featured1824 reedy1830 scrawny1833 stringy1833 lean-ribbeda1845 skeletony1852 famine-pinched1856 shelly1866 flesh-fallen1876 thinnish1884 all horn and hide1890 unfurnished1893 bone-thin1899 underweight1899 asthenic1925 skin-and-bony1935 skinny-malinky1940 skeletal1952 pencil-neck1960 the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [adjective] > without fleshless1590 bare-boned1594 unfleshy1612 tissueless1864 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. M3 But now that faire fresh mirror dim and old Shewes me a bare bon'd death by time out-worne. 1634 J. Bidle tr. Virgil Bucolicks sig. B These [sc. Cattle] bare-bon'd are, & slender. 1874 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 141/1 This huge, gaunt, bare-boned, hungry man. 1880 Catholic World Dec. 426 A bare-boned, grinning skeleton. 1998 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel (Nexis) 19 June a21 Prettier because more real, more attainable, than a dozen bare-boned..swimsuit models. 2006 Chron. Higher Educ. (Nexis) 27 Oct. 56 Then there are the maggots. Thanks to them, corpses are often reduced to bare-boned skeletons within 14 days. 2. figurative. Reduced to or comprising only the basic or essential elements of something; sparse, basic, simple, minimal.Cf. bare-bones adj., to the bare bone at bone n.1 Phrases 1a(a). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount > not abundant scanta1400 thin1508 rare1584 thin-sown1590 scanty1674 infrequenta1682 bare-boned1828 sparse1871 1828 Morning Post 29 Nov. Such miserable sands, such bare-boned gravels,..as you find in the sweet valleys at Bagshot Heath. 1948 S. Carolina Hist. & Geneal. Mag. 49 246 It is a bare-boned account, unembellished, even ungraced, by literary style. 2017 Irish Independent (Nexis) 1 Apr. Elverum keeps the arrangements as bare-boned as he can. Often, there's just a simply plucked guitar to accompany vocals. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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