Boyless
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Without a boy or boys. not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From boy + -less.
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