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Word entry · 8 letters

boneless

Best crossword clue

"Without ribs, say"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted beelnossStarts with BEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2O3N4E5L6E7S8S

Definitions

  1. being without a bone or bones

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: boned, deboned
  • boneless chicken
  • boneless, skinless chicken

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01Without ribs, say8 letters

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