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Wishbone   Listen
noun
Wishbone  n.  The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wishbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... School will do yez good," said Peg, rather grumpily. But she relented again at the last and gave Cecily a wishbone. ...
— The Golden Road • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... greatest teases, always playing jokes on me; so I have fixed up these two turkey wishbones to get even with them this year. Do you suppose they can find anything worse-looking to give me?" She held up two grotesque figures of wishbone and wax, dressed like Dutch boys in baggy trousers and queer caps, and ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown

... eye, fee-faw- fum. talisman, amulet, periapt^, telesm^, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei [Lat.], lamb of God; furcula^, madstone^; mascot, mascotte^; merrythought^; Om, Aum^; scarab, scarabaeus^; sudarium^, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot^, gammadion^. wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin^; wishing-cap, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Wishbone" :   wishing bone, fowl, furcula



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