Definitions for wishbone

wishbone wish·bone

Spelling: [wish-bohn]
IPA: /ˈwɪʃˌboʊn/

Wishbone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in wishbone (behinosw).

Definitions for wishbone

noun

  1. a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.
  2. Football. an offensive formation in which the fullback is positioned directly behind the quarterback and the two halfbacks are positioned farther behind and to the left and right, respectively.

Origin of wishbone

1850-55, Americanism; wish + bone; so called from the custom of pulling the furcula of a cooked fowl apart until it breaks, the person holdin

Examples for wishbone

When he got the wishbone of the chicken all insisted that Lin and he pull it.

I don't know whether it's the wrench at my heart or the strain on my wishbone.

Her face was a regular oval, like the opening in a wishbone.

She used to love to come to dinner at our house so she could have a wishbone.

In proportion as a man's backbone weakens his wishbone seems to develop.

In this operation note the V-shaped wishbone in front of the sternum.

She's the only one in school who has one like that—an owl's head in a wishbone, you know.

Elnora drew the knife from its holder and cut off the wishbone.

And say, folks, if any of you get a wishbone in your meat, will you save it for me?

But she relented again at the last and gave Cecily a wishbone.

Word Value for wishbone
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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