marrowbones
Britishplural noun
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facetious the knees
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a rare word for crossbones See skull and crossbones
Example Sentences
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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
Adj. servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark
We took as usual its tongue, marrowbones, and loins, and left the rest to those that came after us.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
It was getting on for sunset, and still early enough to secure a few marrowbones from these emigrants: hence Tiger, John, and Clifton hurried off, Antonio following them on Jack.
From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various
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