Etymology

aitchbone

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Today it means: A cut of beef lying above the rump bone. Full definition →

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From rebracketing of "a nache-bone" to "an aitchbone". See natch, bone. Attested since the late 1400s, and initially also spelled hach- with a spurious h.

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