boneless

FREQ #44145

a. 无骨的

发音

US

词形变化

more boneless 比较级 most boneless 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

    Near-synonyms: boned, deboned

    boneless chicken

    boneless, skinless chicken

    boneless wings

  2. 2.

    Without pizza crust; without pizza bones.

    美国 幽默
  3. 3.

    Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.

    比喻

    I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit … which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

  4. 4.

    Of a couch, cushionlike due to lacking a hard internal frame.

    非正式

词汇关系

形容词

反义词 1

bony

近义相关 2

boned deboned

相关短语

boneless lean beef trimmings

词源

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

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