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Boneless

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

    "Near-synonyms: boned, deboned"

  2. 2
    Without pizza crust; without pizza bones US, humorous
  3. 3
    Lacking strength, courage, or resolve. British, figuratively

    "I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being without a bone or bones wordnet

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”).

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