boneless

Meaning

Adjective

• Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
• Lacking strength, courage, or resolve; spineless.

Origin

• From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas, from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless, Dutch beenloos, German beinlos, Swedish benlös, Icelandic beinlaus.