marrowbone
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marrowbone
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From marrow + bone.
noun marrowbones
- A bone containing edible marrow. And thy skull and thy marrow-bones will I have away to Carcë, to my palace, to be a token unto all the world that I have been the bane of an hundredth great champion by my wrastling, and thou not least among them that I have slain in that exercise.
- The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling. Upon this condescension, the culprit was called up stairs^([sic]), and made acquainted with the mitigation of his fate; upon which he said, he would down on his marrow-bones to his own master, but would be damn'd before he would ask pardon of e'er a Frenchman in Christendom.
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noun bone with edible marrow
| Español | hueso con tuétano, tuétano |
|---|---|
| Français | os à moelle |
| Deutsch | Markknochen |
| Italiano | osso con midollo, ossobuco, osso buco |
| Ελληνικά | μεδουλιώδες οστό medouliódes ostó |
| Русский | мозгова́я кость mozgovája kostʹ |
Talk about this word "marrowbone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/marrowbone. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. marrowbone. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/marrowbone "marrowbone." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/marrowbone.
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@misc{marrowbone_2026,
title = {marrowbone},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/marrowbone},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
