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boneache

noun

Etymology

From bone + ache.

  1. inherited from *akiz✻
  2. inherited from *aki✻
  3. inherited from *akaną✻ — “to ache”
  4. inherited from *akan✻
  5. inherited from acan
  6. inherited from aken
  7. compounded as boneache — “bone + ache”

Definitions

  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.
    • "Well, sorcerer?" growled the Norman. "Nay, not well," replied Catweazle shivering miserably, "I have the bone-ache."

The neighborhood

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