单词 | raw-boned |
释义 | raw-bonedadj. Now chiefly North American. Of a person, a horse, a part of the body, etc.: having projecting bones barely covered with flesh; extremely lean or gaunt. Also (occasionally): big-boned; having a heavy frame; (hence) physically powerful. Also in extended use. 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 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iv. iii. sig. Mv A lanke rawbon'd Anatomie, he walks vp and down like a charg'd Musket. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 14 Leane raw-bon'd Rascals, who would e're suppose, They had such courage and audacitie? View more context for this quotation 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 229 Those that are dry, raw-boned and bloudlesse. 1686 London Gaz. No. 2127/4 Edward Woodcocke, a tall raw-boned Man, down lookt. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlix. 133 A tall raw-boned man, with a hard featured countenance. 1764 S. Foote Lyar ii. 39 A raw-bon'd, over-grown, clumsy cook-wench. 1802 C. Wilmot Irish Peer on Continent (1920) 102 A cold wild desolate country bare and rawboned. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 81 Dick turned again to the raw-boned steed, which he was currying. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xi. 154 Great, tall, raw-boned Kentuckians, attired in hunting-shirts. 1886 W. Morris Let. 23 June in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. xvi. 161 Stirling..a very raw-boned town. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xviii. 203 Egström.., a raw-boned, heavy Scandinavian, with a busy manner. 1903 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ All on Irish Shore 157 Her sister Muriel, on a raw-boned well-bred colt..shot past her down the leafy road. 1972 J. Mosedale Football v. 72 A rawboned Texan named Samuel Adrian Baugh. 2003 V. O. Carter Such Sweet Thunder 83 A long skinny rawboned boy with tobacco-brown skin and kinky hair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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