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marrowbone [mar-oh-bohn] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN a bone containing edible marrow. marrowbones, Facetious. the knees. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of marrowbone Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at marrow1, bone Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for marrowbones Historical Examples of marrowbones
O, madam, down upon your knees, your marrowbones——he’s one of them.
George Farquhar
It consisted of a large platter of dried meat, reindeer tongues (considered a great delicacy), and marrowbones.
R.M. Ballantyne
We took as usual its tongue, marrowbones, and loins, and left the rest to those that came after us.
Various
The Cleaver seems also to be in compliment to this profession, as well as the Marrowbones and Cleaver.
Jacob Larwood
The town might follow us to church with a serenade of marrowbones and cleavers, as they do the butchers.
Ellen Wood
British Dictionary definitions for marrowbones marrowbones pl n facetious the knees a rare word for crossbones See skull and crossbones marrowbone noun
- a bone containing edible marrow
- (as modifier)marrowbone jelly
Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for marrowbones marrowbone n.
late 14c., from marrow + bone (n.). A poetic Old English word for “bone” was mearhcofa “marrow-chamber.”
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
