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

Get busy now, and down on your marrowbones, both of you!”

From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Carter, Herbert

What wants old marrowbones with our Laurie?" he muttered; "surely he cannot have gotten into mischief with the lasses already.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

A French sailor, who was working on the beach, killing and pickling the meat, had been plundered by an Englishman, who "took away the marrowbones he had taken out of the ox."

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John