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boneless.

Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

    boneless chicken
    boneless, skinless chicken
  2. Without pizza crust; without pizza bones.

    US · humorous
  3. Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.

    UK · figuratively
  4. Of a couch, cushionlike due to lacking a hard internal frame.

    informal
Where this word comes from

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

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