rawboned
[raw-bohnd]
|
adjective
having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.
Origin of rawboned
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for raw-boned
Historical Examples of raw-boned
They had a mutual friend, a raw-boned youth she had met at Cambridge.
All Roads Lead to CalvaryJerome K. Jerome
It was not a very fat mule, however, but raw-boned and gaunt as a Pyrenean wolf.
BruinMayne Reid
“You have a walk and cool yourself,” suggested the raw-boned lady.
Tommy and Co.Jerome K. Jerome
They were raw-boned, seedy-looking lads, of from seventeen to twenty-two.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the TiberJames Aitken Wylie
His new clothes fitted him better; he had lost that raw-boned look.
StubbleGeorge Looms
rawboned
adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
rawboned
[rô′bōnd′]
adj.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.