English Explanatory Dictionary

boneless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
  2. Without pizza crust; without pizza bones.
  3. Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.
  4. Of a couch, cushionlike due to lacking a hard internal frame.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boneless.wav

Word forms

boneless more boneless most boneless

Etymology

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

Synonyms

boned deboned gutless spineless backboneless base bitch-ass boneless caitiff candy-assed chicken chicken-hearted chicken-livered chickenshit courageless cowardish cowardly cowardy cowhearted cowish craven cravenhearted cringey dastard dastardly dickless dough-faced fainthearted fearful fraidy gizzardless heartless invalorous invertebrate hen-hearted kiasi lily-livered liver-faced liver-hearted low-hearted miching milky milk-livered mouse-hearted mousy nerveless niddering nidering niding nithing nutless pigeon-livered poltroonish poor-spirited punk pusillanimous pussylike ratlike rabbit-hearted recrayed

Antonyms

unboned bone-in

Derived words

boneless lean beef trimmings bonelessly bonelessness semiboneless
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