English Explanatory Dictionary

telling bone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The telephone.

Word forms

telling bone telling bones

Etymology

A Hobson-Jobson based on interpreting telephone as telling + bone; coined by British screenwriter Richard Carpenter for the TV series Catweazle.

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