Crossword-Solution: BONY 4 letters, 124 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Bony	a.	Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
Bony	a.	Having large or prominent bones.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BONY	anagram	BYNO, BYON, NBOY, ONBY

We have 124 clues for the answer “BONY”

Clue	Answers
Adjective for shad	1 answer
All elbows	1 answer
Anorexic in appearance	1 answer
Beyond lean	1 answer
Beyond slender	1 answer
Beyond svelte	1 answer
Describing a class of fish.	1 answer
Eschewing meat?	1 answer
FISH having bones rather than cartilage	1 answer
Hardly well-rounded	1 answer
In need of fattening up	1 answer
Jagger's frame	1 answer
Kind of fish shad is.	1 answer
Lacking meat, so to speak	1 answer
Lean as a rake	1 answer
Like Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie	1 answer
Like Moronie of song	1 answer
Like a skeleton	1 answer
Like a whole-cooked fish, say	1 answer
Like a witch's fingers	1 answer
Like badly filleted fish	1 answer
Like fish that are difficult to eat	1 answer
Like fish that can be difficult to eat	1 answer
Like fish that must be eaten carefully	1 answer
Like fish that's hard to eat	1 answer
Like fish that's tricky to eat	1 answer
Like sardines that are not filleted	1 answer
Like some cooked fish	1 answer
Like some tricky-to-eat fish	1 answer
Like teleost fish.	1 answer
Like tuna	1 answer
Like unfilleted sardines	1 answer
Meatless?	1 answer
More than lean	1 answer
Need to fatten up	1 answer
Not filleted, as a fish	1 answer
Not filleted, as fish	1 answer
Not very well padded	1 answer
Osteal	1 answer
Overly skinny	1 answer
Quite gaunt	1 answer
Rail thin	1 answer
Rather spare	1 answer
Shad is very.	1 answer
Site of battle in France, 1918.	1 answer
Super skinny	1 answer
Way too thin	1 answer
Without much meat	1 answer
Without much meat or fat	1 answer
Really thin	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEARE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BONY (5)

Seized the wooden bowl the old man, Closely in his bony fingers Clutched the fatal bowl, Onagon, Shook it fiercely and with fury, Made the pieces ring together As he threw them down before him.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

The little procession then moved forward—the man in front bearing the light, the two bony women next, supporting between them the small and supple one.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

There she found the tramp, his bony body grotesquely attired in the clown’s suit, his face shaved and painted white,—the sweat trickling through the paint and washing it away,—and his eyes wild and feverish.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

That is the rightful ruler of the Emerald City!” and she pointed her long bony finger straight at the boy.

The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

Now she had fastened a row of curly locks to the whip handle, all colours, from gold to silver, fair to dark, and she stroked them with her huge, bony fingers as she laughed at Bibot.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with BONY (3)

Unhappy memories are persistent. They're specific, and it's the details that refuse to leave us alone. Though a happy memory may stay with you just as long as one that makes you miserable, what you remember softens over time. What you recall is simply that you were happy, not necessarily the individual moments that brought about your joy. But the memory of something painful does just the opposite. It retains its original shape, all bony fingers and pointy elbows. Every time i…

Cameron Dokey Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

I want to stay," and then, more weakly, "Need some more sun." A fly from a batch of seaweed lands on a white, bony thigh. She doesn't slap at it. It doesn't go away." But there's no sun, dude." I tell her. I start to walk away. So what, I mutter under my breath. When she wants to come in, she will. Imagine a blind person dreaming. I head back up toward the house. Wonder if Griffin will stick around, if Mona made reservations for dinner, if Spin will call back. "I know what th…

Bret Easton Ellis

Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I beginmy solitary trudge from outer compoundto main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searchesme until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispersthe secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another dayas ice glints on the razor wireand the rifles note my numbed passage, silent but for my huffs and scuffleon the cracked, slipp…

Jorge Antonio Renaud

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 135 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).