barkless
adjEtymology From bark + -less.
1
Without bark (the tree covering).
2
Of a dog That does not bark.
- Pearlie has managed to acquire a phone that purrs, but doesn’t ring; she has found a breed of barkless dog; she censors the newspapers by cutting out upsetting articles.2008 May 11, Maggie Scarf, “The Fog of Love”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- barklessness