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marrowbones

marrowbones is the plural of marrowbone.

Meaning of marrowbone

Noun

marrowbone (plural marrowbones)

  1. A bone containing edible marrow.
    • And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21
  2. (humorous, in plural) The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling.
    • Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs^([sic]), and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 56, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Questions about marrowbones

What is marrowbones the plural of?
Marrowbones is the plural of marrowbone.

Words near marrowbones in the dictionary

  1. marrow smear
  2. marrow smears
  3. marrow squash
  4. marrow squashes
  5. marrowbone
  6. marrowbones
  7. marrowed
  8. marrowfat
  9. marrowfats
  10. marrowish
  11. marrowless

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