Definitions for bred-in-the-bone

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Spelling: [bred-n-th uh-bohn]

IPA: /ˈbrɛd n ðəˈboʊn/

Bred-In-The-Bone is a 16 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 762 anagrams from letters in bred-in-the-bone (---bbdeeehinnort).

Definitions for bred-in-the-bone

adjective

1. firmly instilled or established as if by heredity:
2. deeply committed or resolved; unwavering:

Origin of bred-in-the-bone

from the proverb “What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh,” first recorded in England (in Latin) circa 1290, widespread in various versions since the 15th cent.

Examples for bred-in-the-bone

But one can never reckon with real, bred-in-the-bone old-maidism.

Theodore Roosevelt was a thoroughgoing, bred-in-the-bone individualist, but not as the term is ordinarily understood.