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Adjective: boney  bow-nee
  1. Being very thin
    - scraggy, scraggly, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
     
  2. Having bones especially many or prominent bones
    "a boney shad fillet";
    - bony

See also: bone, boned, bonelike, lean, meager [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], osteoid, strong-boned, thin

Encyclopedia: Boney, George Frank

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