boneless
Adjective
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Adjective
boneless
- Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 14
- The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
- 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, Chapter 14
- (chiefly, British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
- 1931, Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May:
- 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.
- 2006, Graham Searjeant, "Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders ↗", The Times of London, 11 November:
- Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
- 1931, Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May:
- German: schier
- Spanish: deshuesado
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