boner
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
boner (plural boners)
- (vulgar, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
- Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?
- (vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.
- Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?
- One who or that which removes bones.
- (dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]
- He really pulled a boner that time!
Synonyms[edit]
- (slang, erect penis): erection, hard-on, stiffy
- see also Thesaurus:erect penis
- (one that removes bones): deboner
- (mistake): blooper, blunder
- See also Thesaurus:error
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Translations[edit]
rigid state of penis or clitoris — see erection
erect penis
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blunder; silly or stupid mistake
References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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Danish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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Noun[edit]
boner c
- indefinite plural of bon
Etymology 2[edit]
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Verb[edit]
boner
Etymology 3[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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Verb[edit]
boner
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