rawboned

adj
/ɹɔːboʊnd/

Etymology

From raw + boned.

Definitions

  1. Of a person

    Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.

    • Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.
    • […] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.

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