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wishbone
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also wish-bone , 1860, from wish (n.) + bone (n.); so called from the custom of making a wish while pulling the bone in two with another person. The wishbone breaking custom dates to the early 17c., when the bone was a merrythought .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cars were perched atop trees that had snapped like wishbones. ▪ The Cobra is independent all round with lower wishbones, top links formed by transverse leaf springs and telescopic dampers. ▪ The craftsmanship and engineering ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the furcula of a domestic fowl [syn: wishing bone ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wishbone is a half-hour live-action children's television show that was produced from 1995 to 2001 and broadcast on PBS Kids . The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier . Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional town of Oakdale, ...
Usage examples of wishbone.
When they saw the kid in the banquet hall they veered to his table and congratulated him again, each giving him the wishbone pinky handclasp of their growing conspiracy.
A little flare of light within the Y-wing formation had to be one of the wishbones intercepting a turbolaser blast, with fatal results.
I wished on falling stars, on wishbones, I tossed pennies into any pool of water I could find.