funny bone

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[usuallysing.] (informal) the part of the elbow containing a very sensitive nerve that is painful if you hit it against sth

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

funny boneEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary funny boneEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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funny bone