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Boneless vs Unbone - What's the difference?

boneless | unbone |

As an adjective boneless

is without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.

As a verb unbone is

to deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

boneless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
  • *
    • The packers were always originating such schemes—they had what they called "boneless hams," which were all the odds and ends of pork stuffed into casings.
  • (chiefly, British, figuratively) Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.
  • * 1916 , , (Uneasy Money) , ch. 18:
    • I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
  • * 1931 , (Winston Churchill), House of Commons, 13 May:
    • I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit [...] which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless' Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the ' boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
  • * 2006 , Graham Searjeant, " Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders", (The Times) of London, 11 November:
    • Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.
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    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    unbone

    English

    Verb

    (unbon)
  • To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
  • (obsolete) To twist about, as if boneless.
    • (Milton)
    (Webster 1913)