Rawboned
/ɹɔːboʊnd/ adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
"Deuce take lady S⸺; and if I know D⸺y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred."
Adjective
- 1 having a lean and bony physique wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"I am so thin that they say I look rawboned."
Etymology
From raw + boned.