marrowbones

British  

/ ˈmærəʊˌbəʊnz /

plural noun

1. facetious the knees

2. a rare word for crossbones See skull and crossbones

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Example Sentences

Elsewhere in offal, the new, well-hidden Simbal, also in Little Tokyo, serves its marrowbones with the Chinese crullers called you tiao, and Amy Scattergood is there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2015

There he sat cracking marrowbones, neat, tough, durable, his sleek furlike hair shedding the water like a bird’s feathers: he dripped a little onto his shoulders, like house-eaves dripping, and never noticed it.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The flesh was then cut up small for the pack, the marrowbones reserved for "master," and the soup was then boiled until it had evaporated to the quantity required.

From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Then they would all to a man have gone down on their marrowbones to him to come back when he had recovered his senses.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

This was a rogue that would cozen us both; he thought I did not know him: Down on your marrowbones, and confess the truth: Have you no tongue, you rascal?

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by Dryden, John