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Definition of Bare bones
1. Noun. (plural) the most basic facts or elements. "He told us only the bare bones of the story"
Language type: Plural, Plural Form, Colloquialism
Definition of Bare bones
1. Noun. The essential elements of something, described without going into detail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bare Bones
Literary usage of Bare bones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1866)
"... however rough and hideous, was tolerable; and so they scraped and scraped
away, till the bare bones grinned at us in all their comfortless deformity. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1903)
"The soft parts on the back of the right hand were destroyed, displaying the bare
bones ; penis and scrotum were retracted. CASE 16. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"bare bones. bare bones. Second Raven. Let her rot. Let her rot. I have two versions
of that of the Weald of Kent. The one is : First Raven. Dead sheep! ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by W[illiam] F[rancis] Shaw, W. D. Parish, John White Masters (1887)
"bare bones. bare bones. Second Raven. Let her rot. Let her rot. I have two versions
of that of the Weald of Kent. The one is : First Raven. Dead sheep ! ..."
5. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten (1914)
"Or "bare-bones" value, as used in some of the cases? It is not fair to say that
he meant junk value, or bare-bones value. He meant that was the value ..."
6. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1920)
"... is the "bare bones" value of the Missouri intrastate property. The company
asks authority to increase its rates sufficiently to pay operating expenses ..."
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