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breakbone

noun

Etymology

From break + 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 breakbone — “break + bone”

Definitions

  1. Breakbone fever.

    • A nickname for the disease is "breakbone" because it feels like your bones are breaking.

  2. A chicken's wishbone.

    • breakbone A chicken's wishbone; also called the breaking bone or pulleybone.

  3. Violent

    Violent; rough and painful.

    • Near-synonym: backbreaking
    • Shampooing, as employed in Japan, is not exactly the vigorous breakbone manipulation of the Turks at the namman, and which makes one imagine that every joint in the body must have been dislocated.

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