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a bag of bones
a bag of bones
(informal) a person or animal that is extremely thin All the plumpness she'd acquired in middle age had gone. She was a bag of bones.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Vidar | | VEE-dahr (Swedish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Norse Mythology |
Guiscard | | gees-KAHR | Medieval French |
Manahem | | - | Biblical Latin |
Culhwch | | KEEL-hookh (Welsh) | Welsh, Welsh Mythology |
Agurtzane | | - | Basque |
JeĻEna | | - | Latvian |