bone-dry
[bohn-drahy]
- very dry.
- very thirsty.
- Slang. dry(def 17).
- Ceramics. (of clay) thoroughly dried.
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Origin of bone-dry
First recorded in 1815–25
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Examples from the Web for bone-dry
Contemporary Examples
Also in his favor, the congressman has a dark, bone-dry sense of humor that plays well with media types.
What could have propelled a stale, bone-dry story to the top of the Internet's importance arbiter?
Historical Examples
After the corn is bone-dry it should, like all other vegetables and fruits, be conditioned.
Every Step in CanningGrace Viall Gray
I asked him if he meant that it was "bone-dry" like Kansas, or whether the rich could still get it?
Frenzied FictionStephen Leacock
I mustnt do any more on that until it's bone-dry; so you may come down.
The Doctor's DilemmaGeorge Bernard Shaw
The lights of small restaurants glimmered faintly on the bone-dry pavement.
December LoveRobert Hichens
Fruits are dried only until leathery, whereas vegetables are dried until they are bone-dry.
Every Step in CanningGrace Viall Gray
bone-dry
- informal
- completely drya bone-dry well
- (postpositive)the well was bone dry
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