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Rawboned

//ɹɔːboʊnd// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 1
    having a lean and bony physique wordnet

Etymology

From raw + boned.

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