{"id":86347,"date":"2025-06-16T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/historical-change-etymology-of-bare-bones-barebones-english\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:50:39","slug":"historical-change-etymology-of-bare-bones-barebones-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/historical-change-etymology-of-bare-bones-barebones-english\/","title":{"rendered":"historical change &#8211; Etymology of Bare-bones\/Barebone&#8217;s &#8211; English &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed whilst looking in the OED (online) that the term bare-bones only exists meaning &#8216;a lean or skinny person&#8217; (first use, 1598)&#8212;not the meaning many other dictionaries quote as &#8216;the minimum<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/404447\/etymology-of-bare-bones-barebones\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/404447\/etymology-of-bare-bones-barebones<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed whilst looking in the OED (online) that the term bare-bones only exists meaning &#8216;a lean or skinny person&#8217; (first use, 1598)&#8212;not the meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}