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Actually, the word which means having or showing a lot of bones is spelled "bony". The spelling "Boney" was the nickname for Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century, formed, of course, from his surname. It has a negative connotation; it was a nickname used by his enemies, the British.

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