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boning

/ˈbəʊnɪŋ/ UK
/ˈboʊnɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊnɪŋ

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bone

noun bonings

countable, uncountable The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
countable, uncountable The arrangement of bones in a corset.
countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar An act of sexual intercourse. How is it possible that somebody who looks like Thinny can have sex with so many women? Where are all these girls out there begging for bonings in cars?
countable, uncountable Bone structure. She had substantial boning and a wider pelvic girdle than our larger bitch.
countable, uncountable The fertilization of a field with bone meal. The long-continued good result of the bonings of the Cheshire farmers, effects which are said to be perceivable during the continuance of a lease, demonstrates that at least one known fertilizer is useful not merely for a season; and, moreover, as the enlightened Cheshire landlords have been long wo
countable, uncountable The process or result of leveling using a boning rod. Boning is performed with boning rods, which exactly resemble T squares, as shown in fig 1 (page 265).
countable, uncountable Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone. The practice of 'boning' was particularly discouraged. Mrs Duncan Kemp remembered that on one occasion the white stockmen on her father's station had tied up an Aboriginal man and soundly beaten him after he had ignored repeated warnings about his 'boning' activities.

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@misc{boning_2026,
  title = {boning},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boning},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}