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rickles o' banes

rickles o' banes is the plural of rickle o' banes.

Meaning of rickle o' banes

Noun

rickle o' banes (plural rickles o' banes)

  1. (Scotland, idiomatic) An emaciated person or animal.
    • To behold him, mounted on his old shelty, was truly a laughable scene, the animal being always so lean — a perfect "rickle o' banes," […]1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, Hamilton, Adams and Co, page 46
    Synonyms:
    bag of bones

Questions about rickles o' banes

What is rickles o' banes the plural of?
Rickles o' banes is the plural of rickle o' banes.

Words near rickles o' banes in the dictionary

  1. rickle of banes
  2. rickle of bones
  3. Ricklefs
  4. Ricklefses
  5. rickles
  6. rickles o' banes
  7. rickles o' bones
  8. rickles of banes
  9. rickles of bones
  10. Rickleses
  11. Rickman

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