Word of the Day: Rawboned

[RubyK]

relatively thin with prominent bone structure also : heavy-framed and rugged but not attractively built

Rawboned men could always find work on farms when the U.S. was being settled.

 

[Ruthanne]

My father was a rawboned man-always thin but built well and he did grow up on a farm in Pennsylvania.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Rawboned hands make for great hands for a horror movie.

 

[win231]

Anyone can be called "rawboned," but when you can hula-hoop with a Cheerio.........

 

[Pappy]

Sounds like a prison term....

(I am so going to regret this post)...

 

[Sliverfox]

Hubby's grandmother was husky, rawboned type woman, who grew up in the wilds of northwest PA.