rickle o' bones

A form of rickle o' banes — An emaciated person or animal.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounrickle o' bones (plural rickles o' bones)

plural rickles o' bones

  1. alternativeAlternative form of rickle o' banes.

    "She's gonna be a rickle o' bones if she don't stop fallin' off her weight," Mrs. Feeley said.

    1953, Mary Lasswell, Tooner Schooner, Houghton Mifflin, published 1953, page 170
Cite this entry
APA

rickle o' bones. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickle%20o'%20bones

MLA

“rickle o' bones.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickle%20o'%20bones. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rickle o' bones,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rickle%20o'%20bones.

Source: rickle o' bones on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.