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Definition of Boner
1. Noun. An embarrassing mistake.
Generic synonyms: Error, Fault, Mistake
Specialized synonyms: Bobble, Snafu, Spectacle, Bull, Fumble, Muff, Fluff, Faux Pas, Gaffe, Gaucherie, Slip, Solecism, Howler, Clanger, Misstep, Stumble, Trip, Trip-up
Derivative terms: Blunder, Botch, Botchy, Bungle, Bungle, Flub, Foul Up, Fuck Up
Definition of Boner
1. Noun. (literally) Who or which bones (removes bones). ¹
2. Noun. (dated)(baseball)(slang) A blunder; a bad mistake; a silly or stupid mistake. (defdate from early 20th c.) ¹
3. Noun. (slang) An erect penis. (defdate from mid-20th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boner
1. a blunder [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boner
Literary usage of Boner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1863)
"boner. Lee. boner lived in another county. Woodruff inquired of Lee whether it
would be right and safe to have the bond and mortgage assigned to him, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"boner died in the house of Professor Ilor- ... [Memoirs and Letten of Charlee
boner, edited by Rosa M. Kettle, 1871, 2 vols.] 0. ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"JOHN HENRY boner [In the Moravian churchyard at Salem, North Carolina. ...
J John Henry boner, Born in Salem, NC, January 31, 1845. ..."
4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1910)
"He stepped before boner, and in the act of stepping before him, boner hunched
him and said "not ... When boner hunched Fulse, I heard it and felt alarmed. ..."
5. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"... Of the Bible in English printed in the large volume, and of Edmund boner
preferred to the ... boner bishop of Hereford, ..."
6. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"Edmond boner. Cranmer's letter, for an appeal to be made in his name. An original.
Cotton H- IN my right harty maner I commend me to you. ..."
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