rawboned

comparative more rawboned · superlative most rawboned

1. alternativeAlternative form of raw-boned.

   The speaker was a tall, rawboned man with prematurely gray hair and a portion of his left earlobe missing.

   1988, Edward R. Jones, chapter 10, in Hacksaw, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, →ISBN, page 90

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   Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.

   1710 October 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter IV.”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XIV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 208