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🛋️ Limp or weakly 🍗 Without bones
bonelessly

bonelessly

3.9
Made with the bones removed, like chicken for easy eating
  • adverb
  • /ˈboʊn.ləs.li/
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  • The chicken was prepared bonelessly so that children could eat it easily.

Examples

  • The fish was served bonelessly for easy eating.

  • The chicken was cooked bonelessly to make it easier for children to eat.

  • The chicken was prepared bonelessly so that children could eat it easily.

  • She moved bonelessly across the stage, her body appearing to flow without structure.

  • The fish was served bonelessly, making it perfect for a quick meal.

  • The fish was served bonelessly, making it perfect for a quick meal.

  • The chicken was cooked bonelessly to make it easier for children to eat.

Surface Forms

bonelessly positive

Morphology

bonelessly = boneless (transparent) = bone + less + ly

The adverb is a straightforward adverbial form of the adjective 'boneless' (bone + -less), meaning 'in a manner without bones'.

Etymology

The word bonelessly comes from the parts bone + -less + -ly, where bone is 'a hard part inside animals', -less means 'without', and -ly makes the word say how something is done. So when something is done bonelessly in food or the body it means it is 'without bones', as in boneless chicken or a fish with the bones removed.