bareboned

American

[bair-bohnd] / ˈbɛərˌboʊnd /

adjective

lean or spare, as a person.
emaciated; gaunt.

bareboned victims of a terrible famine.

Etymology

Origin of bareboned

1590–1600; bare ¹ + boned, from the earlier use bare-bones or bare-bone a lean person

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So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was standing in not a very happy mood, and leaning against the donkey's neck, when a butcher's boy came jogging along upon his shaggy and bareboned pony.

From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford

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