raw-boned
adj1
Not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.
- A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 194:
adj
Not plump or muscular; thin so that the outline of bones may be seen; gaunt.
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