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Wishbone   Listen
noun
Wishbone  n.  The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wishbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... on fowl in a restaurant. "You see," he explained, as he showed her the wishbone, "you take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pull, and when it breaks the one who has the bigger part of it will have his or her wish granted." "But I don't know what to wish for," she protested. "Oh! you can think of something," he ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... Chief Little Beaver, if we scalp him there is only one scalp, and you will have nothing to show, except you're content with the wishbone." ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... men that had stood by me most in my time; now one was a miser and smuggler, and got himself hung; and one was a thief, and died of a split wishbone, on what he called "a throne;" and one was a fighter and gambler and poet, and he had a heavy fist, and he turned remorseful into a Burmese monk; and one was Stevey Todd. And Madge Pemberton thought at one time I was all right, but she was wrong there. And I thought how ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton

... began to talk like a trout, old man Hodge grabbed the bread knife and begged to be allowed to carve his initials on somebody's wishbone. ...
— Skiddoo! • Hugh McHugh



Words linked to "Wishbone" :   fowl, bird



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