Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
All-bones
subs. phr. (old).—A thin bony person.
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1602. J. COOKE, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad, ii., 3 (DODSLEY, Old Plays, 4th ed., 1875, ix., 41). That famine, that lean evny, that ALL-BONES.
