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boyless en · ADJ

Etymology

From boy + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a boy or boys.
    • The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box. 1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:

Deriveds

boylessness