Boyless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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