boner

See also: Boner and böner

English

Etymology

From bone +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.nə(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.nɚ/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)

Noun

boner (plural boners)

(vulgar, slang) An erect penis. [from mid-20th c.]
- 1973, Sol Gordon, Facts about sex for today's youth‎, →ISBN, page 20:
  Boys often refer to their enlarged penis as an "erection," a "boner," or a "hard on."
Why do guys get boners when they wake up in the morning?
1. (vulgar, slang, figurative) An often perverse sense of enjoyment from or predilection towards something.
  Why do politicians have such a boner for meaningless memorials?
(literally) One who or that which bones (removes bones).
(dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake. [from early 20th c.]
He really pulled a boner that time!

Synonyms

(slang, erect penis): erection, hard-on, stiffy
see also Thesaurus:erect penis
(one that removes bones): deboner
(mistake): blooper, blunder
See also Thesaurus:error

Derived terms

boner-killer
boner pill
boner-shrinker
hate-boner
ladyboner
perma-boner
rage boner

Related terms

boned

Translations

who bones

Danish: udbener c
Dutch: ontbener

rigid state of penis or clitoris — see erection

erect penis

Arabic: اِنْتِصَاب‎ (intiṣāb)
Bikol Central: latog
Catalan: trempera (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勃起 (zh) (bóqǐ)
Danish: boner c, stivert c, stådreng c
Dutch: stijve (nl) m
Finnish: seisokki (fi), stondis (fi) (slang), heijari (fi)
French: trique (fr) f, gaule (fr) f
Georgian: ამდგარი (amdgari)
German: Ständer (de) m, Latte (de) f
Greek: σηκωμάρα (el) f (sikomára), καύλα (el) f (kávla)
Hebrew: זקפה‎ (he) f (zikpá)
Indonesian: ngaceng, konak
Irish: adharc f
Italian: erezione (it)
Japanese: 勃起 (ja) (ぼっき, bokki)
Korean: 발기 (ko) (balgi)
Mongolian: босчихсон боов (bosčixson boov)
Norwegian: ståpikk m
Polish: kościej m
Portuguese: pau duro m, tesão (pt) m
Romanian: erecție (ro) f
Russian: стоя́к (ru) (stoják)
Spanish: erección (es), tieso (es) m, empalme (es) m
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} stånd (sv) n
Ukrainian: стоя́к (stoják)
Welsh: codiad (cy) m, min m (North), cwnnad m (South)

blunder; silly or stupid mistake

Bulgarian: гаф (bg) m (gaf)
Finnish: moka (fi), töppäys
French: connerie (fr) f
Polish: gafa (pl) f
Spanish: metida de pata (es) f, cagada (es) f (vulgar), pifia (es)

References

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

Breon, Ebron, borne

Danish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋˀɐ]

Noun

boner c

indefinite plural of bon

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥oːnɐ]

Verb

boner

present tense of bone

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌŋɐ]

Verb

boner

present tense of bone