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Boneless meat or fish has had the bones taken out, so you can cook and eat it without picking them away. Shop packs and menus say boneless chicken, boneless thighs, boneless fish fillets. It is a practical food word for cooks, butchers, and . The meaning is literal: without bones. The animal had bones; someone removed them. People sometimes stretch boneless to mean a person with no courage, like spineless, but that is a ruder, looser use — this entry is the food one.
去骨的(超市、菜單用語;也常寫「無骨」,如無骨雞腿)
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bonelessadj
- 1
Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
- Near-synonyms: boned, deboned
- boneless chicken
- 2
Without pizza crust; without pizza bones.
- 3
Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.
- I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.
- I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit … which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
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informalfurniturelifestyleOf a couch, cushionlike due to lacking a hard internal frame.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。