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boneache

boneache noun: pain in the bones, or seemingly in the bones.

Noun

boneache (countable and uncountable, plural boneaches)

  1. Pain in the bones, or seemingly in the bones.
    • After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war for a placket.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • The blueberries grew far away and the Old Lady had many a tramp after them. Sometimes her bones ached at night because of it; but what cared the Old Lady for that? Bone ache is easier to endure than soul ache; and the Old Lady’s soul had stopped aching for the first time in many a year.1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Old Lady Lloyd”, in Chronicles of Avonlea, Boston: L.C. Page, page 43
    Synonyms:
    osteocope

Synonyms of boneache

Forms of boneache

pluralboneaches
alternative formbone-ache

Origin of boneache

From bone + ache.

Questions about boneache

What does boneache mean?
Boneache means pain in the bones, or seemingly in the bones.
What part of speech is boneache?
Boneache is a noun.
What is the plural of boneache?
The plural of boneache is boneaches.

Words near boneache in the dictionary

  1. bone-shaking
  2. bone-shakingly
  3. bone-straight
  4. bone-tired
  5. boneable
  6. boneache
  7. boneaches
  8. bonebed
  9. bonebeds
  10. boneblack
  11. boneblacks

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