Merrythought

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British A wishbone.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The furcula or wishbone.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See furculum.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The furcula or wishbone of a fowl's breast: so called from the sport of breaking it between two persons of whom each pulls at one of the two ends, to determine which is to be married first, or which is to have a wish gratified that has been mentally formed for the occasion, the winner being the one who gets the longer fragment.
    • Word Usage
    "This resemblance was carefully pointed out by Professor Huxley in his "Hunterian Course" for 1867, when attention was called to the existence in Dimorphodon macronyx of even that small process which in birds gives attachment to the upper end of the merrythought."
    Variant
    wishbone    furculum   
     
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