notomy

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notomy

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Back-formation from anatomy.

noun notomies

dialectal, obsolete A skeleton; (also figurative) someone emaciated. They allow me to eat nothing at night but blanchius manſhius, which has made a perfect notomy of me; […]
Similar: atomy, thin person

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@misc{notomy_2026,
  title = {notomy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/notomy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}