beardless
adjEtymology 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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Lacking a beard.
- A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
- Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13:
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Broadly, Of a male 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?1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:
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Lacking an awn.
- beardless wheat
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Biology, Natural sciences, Ornithology Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
- Derived terms
- beardlessness
- Related terms
- beard, bearded, beardedness, debeard, unbeard