boney

See also: Boney

English

Adjective

boney (comparative bonier, superlative boniest)

  1. Alternative spelling of bony

Anagrams

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English *boni, from Old French bon (“good”); compare English bonnie, bonny (“fine, attractive”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bʊˈniː/

Noun

boney

  1. (figurative) An able person.

References
  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27
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