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Noun

1. 1
   bone Geordie

   "Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—"

Synonyms

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bonydeboneosribadamantaitchbone

Example

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"Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—"

Etymology

A dialectal reflex of Northern Middle English bane (“bone”), featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

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