marrowbone
noun
marrowbone is a noun meaning “A bone containing edible marrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-R-R-O-W-B-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of marrowbone is marrowbones.
What does marrowbone mean?
noun
- 1
A bone containing edible marrow.
- 2
The shins or knees, chiefly in references to kneeling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce marrowbone?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-marrowbone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of marrowbone
- marrowbones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is marrowbone?
Marrowbone appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Marrowbone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bone with edible marrow:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | os à moelle |
| German | Markknochen |
| Spanish | hueso con tuétano, tuétano |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does marrowbone come from?
From marrow + bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).