Etymology 1

Adjective

1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
2. Said of something that is rubbish or broken.

Noun

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone
4. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
5. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

6. A dollar.
7. An erect penis; a boner.
8. Dominoes or dice.

Verb

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

   "They boned the roast before placing it in the oven."

2. To have sexual intercourse with.

   So, did you bone her?

3. To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
   • 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48.

     "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".

4. To study (see also bone up)
   • 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums

     "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."

5. To polish boots to a shiny finish
   • ca 1980, F van Zyl, SADF National Service (1979-1980)

     "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"

Synonyms

Related terms

• exostosis
• myositis ossificans
• ossature
• ossein
• osseous
• ossicle
• ossification
• ossify
• ossuary
• osteal

• osteitis
• osteoblast
• osteoclasis
• osteoclast
• osteocyte
• osteogenesis
• osteolysis
• osteoma
• osteomalacia

• osteomyelitis
• osteophyte
• osteoplastic
• osteoplasty
• osteoporosis
• osteosarcoma
• osteosis
• osteotome
• osteotomy

See also

• Appendix:Bones
• coccygeal vertebra
• cervical vertebra
• calcaneus
• carpal
• acetabulum
• clavicle
• coccyx
• costa
• cranium
• distal phalange
• femur
• fibula
• humerus
• ilium
• incus
• inferior nasal concha
• intermediate phalange

• ischium
• kneecap
• lumbar vertebra
• malleus
• mandible
• maxilla
• metacarpal
• metatarsal
• orthopedic
• os coxae
• patella
• pelvic girdle
• pelvis
• phalanx
• proximal phalange
• pubis
• radius

• rib
• sacral vertebra
• sacrum
• scapula
• shoulder blade
• skeleton
• skull
• stapes
• sternum
• talus
• tarsal
• thoracic vertebra
• tibia
• trapezium
• ulna
• vertebra
• Appendix:Colours

Verb

1. To apprehend, steal.
   • 1942: Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 802)