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say it: BOH-nee
boney is an adjective meaning "having bones especially many or prominent bones". It carries 2 recorded senses.
having bones especially many or prominent bones
“a bony shad fillet”
“her bony wrist”
“bony fish”
being very thin
“a child with skinny freckled legs”
“a long scrawny neck”
“pale bony hands”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for boney come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.