Bony

Definition: Bony

Bony

Adjective

1. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration".

2. Composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue".

3. Having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist".

Date "bony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Mining	Coal containing slaty material in its composition. (references)
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The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BONY	English	Bank of New York	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Bony

Synonyms: boney (adj), cadaverous (adj), emaciated (adj), gaunt (adj), haggard (adj), osseous (adj), osteal (adj), pinched (adj), skeletal (adj), wasted (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: boneless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hardness	Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Bony Parts (1921)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bony and the Kelly Gang (A Scribner Crime Classics) (reference) Bony and the Mouse [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Bony Skeleton's Cut Out Fun Book (reference) Bony Sweaty Greasy Scratchy Flaky Body Science (reference) Me divierto en el parque (Lola y Bony series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Rat-tail, also known as a grenadier. These bony fish inhabit sandy plains along the continental slope. Grenadier belong to the family Macrouridae and are gadiformes (cod-like fishes). Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).		Memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission, France - Somme American Cemetery near Bony, from chapel steps. Credit: Library of Congress.
	St. Emilie, Aisne, France. 2nd Lt. Curtis, a divisional burial officer, getting names from graves, of men who were killed in drive of Sept. 29, 1918, near Bony, France. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	His bony hand dug its way like a squirrel into his overall pocket, brought out a black, bitten plug of tobacco
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The pituitary gland sits in the middle of the head in a bony box called the sella turcica. (references)
		Brain and spinal cord tumors are abnormal growths of tissue found inside the skull or the bony spinal column. (references)
		Lying in its bony shell and washed by protective fluid, the brain is the source of all the qualities that define our humanity. (references)
Civil Liberties	Haiti	Lindor's name was on a list publicly announced over the radio on November 30 by Dube Bony, deputy mayor of Petit-Goave and a member of the ruling FL party. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bony" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bony" is used about 321 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	321	16,086

Expressions using "bony": Bony Callus ♦ bony coal ♦ bony fish ♦ bony labyrinth ♦ bony palate ♦ Bony pike ♦ bony socket. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "bony": bony-jawed, bony-plated, bony-skinned, bony-tongues.
	Ending with "bony": dry-bony.
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Language		Translations for "bony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plot hala, kockëmadh. (various references)

Arabic		‏كثير العظام, ‏نحيل (gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, poor, raw boned, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, svelte, thin), ‏ناتئ العظام, ‏عظمي (osseous, osteal, raw boned). (various references)

Bulgarian		с едър кокал, костен (bone, osseous), костелив. (various references)

Chinese		骨多 (boney). (various references)

Czech		vyhublý (angular, gaunt, skinny), plný (crowded, filled, full, full(of), fulsome, packed, plenary, pregnant, replete, round, solid), kostnatý (angular). (various references)

Danish		benet (osseous), ossoes (osseous), knogle- (osseous, osteo...). (various references)

Dutch		benig (osseous), schonkig, ossaal (osseous), m.b.t.de beenderen (osseous), knokig. (various references)

Esperanto		osteca. (various references)

Farsi		استخوانی , استخوان دار. (various references)

Finnish		ruotoinen, luiseva (scrawny). (various references)

French		osseux. (various references)

German		knochig (rawboned), knochendürr, knöcherne. (various references)

Greek		κοκκαλιάρησ, σκελετωμένοσ (raw boned), οστεώδησ (osseous). (various references)

Hebrew		מלא עצמות, עצמ� י, �'רמי (osseous, osteal), �'רום (skeletal). (various references)

Hungarian		szálkás (barbate, barbed, scratchy, stringy), csontos (boned, cragged, skinny). (various references)

Indonesian		bertulang. (various references)

Italian		osseo (bone, osseous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		骨っぽい　 (hard to deal with, plucky, spirited, tough), 骨っぽい (hard to deal with, plucky, spirited, tough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほねっぽい (hard to deal with, plucky, spirited, tough). (various references)

Korean		뼈 (Bone, bones, boney). (various references)

Manx		mooar-chraueagh (big-boned), lane crauenyn, craueagh (osseous, scraggy, skinny). (various references)

Pig Latin		onybay.(various references)

Portuguese		ossudo (angular), magro (angular, contracted, gaunt, haggard, jejune, lank, lean, meager, meagre, raw-boned, reduced, reedy, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skimpy, skinny, slender, thin), esquelético (gaunt, skeletal), ósseo (osseous). (various references)

Romanian		osos (angular, big-boned, osseous, raw boned), din oase, ciolãnos (raw boned). (various references)

Russian		костистый (osseous). (various references)

Scottish		cn� mhach (a. bony). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koščat (gaunt, osseous, raw boned, rawboned, scrawny). (various references)

Spanish		óseo (osseous). (various references)

Swedish		benig (puzzling, scraggy, scrawny, skinny). (various references)

Turkish		kemiksi (bonelike, osseous, osteoid), kemikli (boned, osseous), kemikleri çıkmış, kemik gibi, kılçıklı (boned, spined, spiny, stringy). (various references)

Ukrainian		сухорлявий (scrawny), худорлявий (gaunt, lank, slab-sided, slight), ширококосний, кістковий, кощавий (angular). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	osseus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	2 Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 37
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Elie o ammanithV gelwrai o bhrwqaioV airwn ta skeuh iwab uiou sarouiaV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Selech de Ammoni Naharai Berothites armiger Ioab filii Sarviae
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Bony, of Gaddi; Selech, of Ammony; Naamy Berothite, the squyer of Joab, the sone of Saruye;
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, who had the care of the arms of Joab, son of Zeruiah,
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Language	2 Samuel Chapter 23, Verse 37
Cebuano	Si Selek, ang Ammonhanon; si Naharay, ang Beerothnon, ang mga magdadala kang Joab, anak nga lalake ni Sarvia;
Chinese	亞捫人洗 �' 、 �" 錄人拿 �"� 萊、是給洗魯雅的 �' 子約押拿兵器的、
Croatian	Selek Amonac; Nahraj iz Beerota, štitonoša Sarvijina sina Joaba;
Danish	Ammoniten Zelek; Naharaj fra Be'erot, der var Joabs, Zerujas Søns, Våbendrager;
Dutch	Zelek, de Ammoniet; Naharai, de Beerothiet, de wapendrager van Joab, den zoon van Zeruja;
Finnish	ammonilainen Selek; beerotilainen Naharai, Jooabin, Serujan pojan, aseenkantaja;
French	Tsélek, l`Ammonite. Naharaï, de Beéroth, qui portait les armes de Joab, fils de Tseruja.
German	Zelek, der Ammoniter; Naharai, der Beerothiter, der Waffenträger Joabs, des Sohnes der Zeruja;
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dan Zelik, orang Ammoni, dan Naharai, orang Bieroti, biduanda Yoab bin Zeruya,
Maori	Ko Tereke Amoni, ko Nahari Peeroti, ko nga kaimau patu a Ioapa tama a Teruia;
Norwegian	ammonitten Selek; be'erotitten Naharai, Joabs, Serujas sønns våbensvenn;
Portuguese	Zeleque, o amonita; Naarai, o beerotita, o que trazia as armas de Joabe, filho de Zeruia;
Rumanian	Yelec, Amonitul. Naharai din Beerot, care ducea armele lui Ioab, fiul Yeruiei.
Spanish	Selec el amonita; Najarai, de Beerot, escudero de Joab, hijo de Sarvia;
Swedish	ammoniten Selek; beerotiten Naharai, vapendragare åt Joab, Serujas son;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words ending with "bony": ebony, gobony, ribbony. (additional references)
	Words containing "bony": carbonyl, carbonylation, carbonylations, carbonylic, carbonyls. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baney, Banny, Banwy, bany, Banyi, bayn, Bency, beny, Benyi, Bini, Binny, biny, binya, Bnoc, boay, bocn, boey, bohn, boly, bonc, Bondy, bongy, boni, bonie, Boniek, bonil, boniz, bonjy, bonky, bonna, Bonni, bonnye, bont, bonx, bonys, Bonytt, Bonz, booney, boony, borny, bory, boty, bouy, bovy, bownty, bowny, boyf, boyn, Boyns, bozy, broncy, bunjy, bunty, iony, obn, Vonjy, wony, yony. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bony" (pronounced bō"nē)
4	b ō" n ē	boney.
3	-ō" n ē	abalone, baloney, Bologna, Coney, crony, macaroni, mony, negroni, pepperoni, phoney, phony, pony, rigatoni, Stoney, stony, Toney, Tony.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-n-o-y"
	-1 letter: boy, nob, yob, yon.
	-2 letters: bo, by, no, on, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "b-n-o-y"
	+1 letter: boney, bonny, ebony, nobby, nobly.
	+2 letters: barony, baryon, betony, beyond, botany, bouncy, bounty, briony, bronzy, browny, bryony, bygone, gobony, knobby, nobody, snobby.
	+3 letters: amboyna, anybody, balcony, baloney, baryons, bayonet, benomyl, benzoyl, beyonds, biogeny, bionomy, bodying, bogyman, bogymen, boloney, bonnily, buoyant, buoying, buttony, bygones, embryon, ignobly, knobbly, linkboy, newsboy, nobbily, nonbody, notably, obeying, ribbony, sabayon, soybean, symbion.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bony	50	bony girl	4
bony fish	37	bony clyde	3
bony pony	20	bony tyler	3
bony m	16	bony fish skeleton	2
bony pink	13	bony lyrics m	2
bony fish picture	9	bony fish information	2
bony james	8	jean bony	2
bony leg	7	bony characteristic fish	2
bony pony ranch	6	bony sclerosis	2
bony fact fish	4	anatomy bony fish	2
bony growth	4	bony fish osteichthyes	2
bony bug	4
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Bony

Definition: Bony

Bony

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Bony

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Bony

BONY

Synonyms: Bony

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Bony

Usage Frequency: Bony

Expression: Bony

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bony

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