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bone felon

American  

noun

Chiefly Southern U.S.

  1. felon.

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I understand you're sore as a thumb with a bone felon.

From Oh, You Tex! by Raine, William MacLeod

Only twenty miles apart, and she with a shocking bone felon in her hand and that dreadful cough, unable to come to me, whilst I am lying helpless here, as unable to get to her.

From A Confederate Girl's Diary by Dawson, Sarah Morgan

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