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Definition: Boner |
BonerNoun1. An embarrassing mistake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | French (trique), Norwegian (ståkuk). (references) |
Occupations | Inserts stays (bones or steels) into prepared pockets of women's foundation garments, such as corsets or brassiers, or into casings of surgical appliances: Selects number and size stays to be inserted and pushes stays into pockets or casings by hand or using metal punch. May mark dot on support appliance, using pencil and template. May cut excess leather, cloth, and threads from appliance, using scissors, and inspect appliance for sewing defects. (references) |
Slang | Penile erection. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BonerSynonyms: bloomer (n), blooper (n), blunder (n), boo-boo (n), botch (n), bungle (n), flub (n), foul-up (n), fuckup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sexuality | Sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence;hots, horns; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I just wanted you to know I had the hugest boner and I was just wondering if maybe you and I could get together andwork it out. (Can't Hardly Wait; writing credit: Deborah Kaplan; Harry Elfont) Do you really want to get all dressed up, so some bacar-newar wearing dextar with a boner can feel you up while you're forced to listen to a band that by definition, blows (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) Trey, you have a bonerI can't discuss my notes if you have a boner. (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) Boner? Is boner one (Varsity Blues; writing credit: W. Peter Iliff) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Wishbone Boner (1967) Billion Dollar Boner (1960) Home Boner (1939) Beach Blanket Boner (1992) | |
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| "Boner" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Boner" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "boner" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Boner | Last name | 1,000 | 10,257 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "boner": make a boner. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
boner | 1,489 | hard boner | 8 |
big boner | 58 | boner rotten | 8 |
boner boy | 50 | boner male | 7 |
boner rate | 27 | best boner | 7 |
gay boner | 24 | boner free | 7 |
boner picture | 17 | boner story | 7 |
boner com | 17 | boner little mermaid priest | 6 |
boner man | 17 | boner get | 6 |
boner rotten.com | 17 | boner boys.com | 6 |
babe boner | 16 | boner funny | 5 |
boner pic | 16 | boner in speedo | 5 |
boner sweatpant | 16 | boner kid | 5 |
huge boner | 13 | boner fuel | 5 |
boner dog | 12 | boner horse | 5 |
boner guy | 12 | boner shemale | 5 |
boner speedo | 10 | boner daily | 5 |
black boner | 10 | boner gallery | 5 |
boner teen | 9 | boner girl | 4 |
boner young | 9 | boner in underwear | 4 |
boner little mermaid | 9 | boner c3po | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "boner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Gafë (balk, baulk, bloomer, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gross fault, howler, slip). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | "аф, "лупава "решка. (various references) | |
Farsi | اشتباه مضحک . (various references) | |
Finnish | kömmähdys (bloomer, blunder, faux pas). (various references) | |
French | invraisemblance. (various references) | |
German | Schnitzer (blooper, blunder, bobble, boob, booboo, carver, goof, howler, slip up, solecism). (various references) | |
Greek | χονδρό Λάθοσ, 'λακεία (Folly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | baklövés (bad break, balk, blunder, blundering, break, crack, flub-up, goof, howler, slip up, slip-up, stumble, trip), melléfogás (blunder, blundering, muff, side dish, slip up, trip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebodohan (dowdy, ignorance, mistake). (various references) | |
Italian | Errore Marchiano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 傑作 (best work, blunder, masterpiece). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めいとう (absurd response, correct answer, definite answer, excellent sword, famous sword, ridiculous answer, sword inscribed with the name of the swordsmith, well-known hot spring), けっさく (best work, blunder, masterpiece). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fiasco (abortion, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, flunk, frost, washout), erro (aberration, balk, bug, delusion, deviation, error, fault, indecorum, lie, miss, mistake, slip, solecism, stumble, wrong). (various references) | |
Russian | Промах (Miss), глупая ошибка (blooper), промах (bloomer, muff, slip-up). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neuspeh (abort, bust, failure, fizzle, muff), jak udarac u leđa. (various references) | |
Spanish | Metedura De Pata (bloomer, gaffe). (various references) | |
Swedish | Tabbe (bloomer, boob, clinker, cock up, faux pas, gaffe, goof, howler, muff, slip). (various references) | |
Thai | ความผิ"ที่น่าอับอาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | Pot (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, break, clanger, contretemps, crease, faux pas, gaff, jackpot, kitty, pool, pot, stake), Gaf (atrocity, bloomer, blunder, break, bull, clanger, contretemps, faux pas, flub, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, slip, slip of the tongue, slip up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Промах (Bos, Miss), "руба Помилка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sai lầm ngớ ngẩn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boner": boners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "boner": deboner, jawboner. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boner": deboners, jawboners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boner" (pronounced bō"ner) |
| 3 | -ō" n er | donor, Honer, kroner, kronor, loner, owner, Stoner, toner. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: borne. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bone, bore, born, bren, ebon, robe. | |
-2 letters: ben, bro, eon, ern, neb, nob, nor, obe, one, orb, ore, reb, rob, roe. | |
-3 letters: be, bo, en, er, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bonder, boners, bonier, bonzer, borane, boreen, bourne, broken, bronze, enrobe, nobler, reborn, unrobe. | |
+2 letters: bandore, baronet, baronne, begroan, bethorn, bicorne, blonder, bonders, bonfire, bonkers, bonnier, boranes, boreens, borneol, bornite, bouncer, bounder, bournes, broaden, bromine, bronzed, bronzer, bronzes, browned, browner, brownie, burgeon, deboner, embrown, embryon, enrobed, enrober, enrobes, newborn, nobbier, nobbler, reboant, rebound, redbone, sorbent, unbroke, unrobed, unrobes, unsober, upborne. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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