boned

[ bohnd ]

adjective

1. having a particular kind of bone or bony structure (used in combination):

   beautifully boned; raw-boned; small-boned.

2. having the bones taken out; cooked or served with the bones removed:

   boned chicken; boned veal.

3. braced or supported with stays, as a corset.
4. fertilized with bone:

   boned land.

Other Words From

• well-boned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of boned¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; bone, -ed ³

Example Sentences

Zeigen, who wears his hair shorn tight to his head, emphasizing his finely boned face and huge brown eyes, began by describing his mother.

From Salon

"I pulled up the character creation screen and thought 'that character is built like me, like somebody who is just naturally broad-shouldered, big boned,'" she says.

From BBC

In 1989, a year after he finished his military service, he boned up on the language with a monthlong crash course in Budapest.

From New York Times

“I’m almost 6-feet-tall and big boned, we’ll call it. I don’t look like the people you see on TV,” she said.

From Seattle Times

In the men’s chorus, each singer had a neck-to-ankle tunic, and it was all boned, with hundreds of nylon bone inserts.

From New York Times