boney

boney (comparative bonier, superlative boniest)

1. Alternative spelling of bony

• Boyne, Bynoe, Ebony, ebony

• bonny

From Middle English *boni, from Old French bon (“good”); compare English bonnie, bonny (“fine, attractive”).

• IPA^(key): /bʊˈniː/

boney

1. (figurative) An able person.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27