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boneless

boneless

12 1.4
Having no bones
  • adjective
  • /ˈboʊnləs/
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  • I was in the supermarket and everyone was buying big turkeys, and I was standing in the ten-items-and-under line with a boneless chicken breast.
  • boneless chicken
  • boneless chicken breast
  • boneless and skinless

Do you, like, do you like boneless or boned?

Examples

  • Would you like to start the night off right with boneless Buffalo wings?

  • Use skinless, boneless chicken breasts, and assume 4 to 6 ounces per serving.

    Blog text (3)

  • This is a boneless ham.

    The Cookout (2004)

  • That is a boneless ham.

    The Cookout (2004)

  • Guys, I got some boneless chicken I'll trade for some pound cake.

    Casualties of War (1989)

  • So we are out of bone in chicken wings, but we do have boneless chicken wings.

  • Suggestion for the younger ones: make your own chicken nuggets at home from fresh, boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

    Blog text (30)

  • Go to Costco and buy the 6 lb bag of frozen boneless, skinless thighs.

    Blog text (15)

  • Would you like to start the night off right with boneless Buffalo wings?

  • Shayna says, "I'm going to fry boneless chicken breast for dinner."

Synonyms

deboned
vsboneless
3.4

Meat or fish with the bones removed

applies to things that naturally lack bones as well as removed ones
boned
vsboneless
3.0

Meat or fish with the bones removed

applies to things that naturally lack bones as well as removed ones

Antonyms

bony
9 3.0

Made from the hard parts inside animals or humans, like a skeleton

How Boneless

boneless
12 1.4
deboned
3.4
bony
9 3.0

Surface Forms

boneless positive

Morphology

boneless = bone (transparent) = bone + less

Formed by the productive suffix '-less' added to the noun 'bone', meaning 'without bones', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Boneless is formed from bone and the ending -less, where bone is the hard part inside your body and -less means 'without', just like in hopeless, which means 'without hope'. So boneless simply means 'without bones', which is why we call meat or animals that have no bones 'boneless'.