SKELETON
ADJECTIVES
► CARRION skeleton-like → 1565 obs.
► SKELETONIAN resembling a skeleton; lean, thin → 1801
► SKELETONTAL skeleton-like → 1651 obs.
► SKELETONY skeleton-like → 1852
ADVERBS
► SKELETONLY like a skeleton → 1847
NOUNS
► ANATOMY a skeleton → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ATOMY ► ATTAMIE ► NATOMY ► NOTOMY ► NOTTAMY ► OTTOMY a skeleton → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BONES a skeleton → 1904 Amer. students’ sl. (Bk.)
► BONES OF MISERY, THE a skeleton → 1892 Sc.
► CAGE OF BONES a skeleton → 1860 Eng. dial.
► CRANG a skeleton → 1876 Eng. dial.
► FRAME the skeleton of an animal, bird, or fish (used by trappers and hunters) → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► MOMENTY-MORRIES skeletons → 1899 Eng. dial.
► NOTOMIZE ► OTTIMAZE ► OTTIMIZE a skeleton → 1790 Eng. dial.
► OTAMY ► OTOMY a skeleton → 1727
► RACKABONE ► RACKERBONE ► RACK OF BONES a skeleton; an emaciated person or animal → E19 US sl.
► RACKER a skeleton; an emaciated person or animal → E19 US sl.
► RAGABANES the skeleton of a fish or animal → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► RAME the bones or skeleton of a human being or animal; generally plural → 1497 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RAMES a skeleton, a carcass; the framework or ligaments of anything; remains, remnants → E19 Eng. dial.
► RICKLE ► RICKLE OF BONES a very lean person or animal, a skeleton → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRAE ► SCRAY ► SKRAE a thin, skinny person or animal; anything thin and shrivelled; a skeleton → 1802 Sc.
► SKELET a skeleton → 1565 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SKELLY a skeleton → 2000s sl.
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