noun
boner
An erection of the penis.
The health glossary identifies boner as slang for an erection.
Etymology
Old English bān supplies the word for bone. The slang noun borrows bone’s hardness as an image for an erection, with -er forming the name of the thing.
In context
boners which is a painful and prolonged erection you know the all the all the patients their characteristics symptom having a boner
More examples
- The editor marked boner as informal anatomical slang.
- The dialogue uses boner in its sexual sense.
- She replaced boner with a neutral medical term.
Forms
boner · boners
Similar words
- erection
- The neutral anatomical term.
- arousal
- A broader state that need not include an erection.