boney
See also: Boney
English
editAdjective
editboney (comparative bonier, superlative boniest)
- Alternative spelling of bony
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English *boni, from Old French bon (“good”); compare English bonnie, bonny (“fine, attractive”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboney
- (figurative) An able person.
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27