rawboned
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ɹɔːboʊnd/
adj
Etymology: From raw + boned.
- Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
“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.”
“[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.”