rawboned

[raw-bohnd]

adjective

1. having little flesh, especially on a large-boned frame; gaunt.

rawboned

/ ˈrɔːˈbəʊnd /

adjective

1. having a lean bony physique

Word History and Origins

Origin of rawboned¹

First recorded in 1585–95; raw + boned

Example Sentences

“This boy is wiry, strong, rawboned. Has good features — good voice, poise; looks like a ballplayer,” Davis wrote, before detailing Schmidt’s skills.

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As a curious and rawboned kid, I’d sometimes roam the ravaged sandpit behind the factory.

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One January, every time I took the J6 bus from Silver Spring Metro to my class on upper Connecticut Avenue, a tall, rawboned young man would board, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

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Hulking, rawboned and bespectacled, Mr. Ruckelshaus shepherded several federal environmental entities into a robust regulatory agency and did as much as anyone to mold the EPA’s mission.

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“It’s a rawboned little story,” Sehgal writes, “prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent; a John Waters sex farce told with the tact and formality of a classic French fairy tale.”

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