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beardless

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Definition of beardless

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Lacking a beard.
    “A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.”
    “Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.”
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adj

  1. Lacking a beard.
    “A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.”
    “Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.”
  2. (broadly)Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
    “shall a beardless boy, Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields, And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, Mocking the air with colours idly spread, And find no check?”
  3. Lacking an awn.
    “beardless wheat”
  4. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

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Etymology

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

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