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barebone

noun

Etymology

From bare + bone.

  1. derived from *bʰeyh₂-✻ — “to hit, strike, beat”
  2. inherited from *bainą✻ — “bone”
  3. inherited from bān — “bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”
  4. inherited from bon
  5. compounded as barebone — “bare + bone”

Definitions

  1. A very lean person, especially one whose bones show through the skin.

  2. Something that contains solely the essentials

    Something that contains solely the essentials; something that fits the bare minimum.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for barebone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA