calfless

adj — 2 senses

calfless

adj

US /ˈkæfləs/

Etymology From calf (“back of the leg below the knee”) + -less.

1

Having no or extremely reduced calves.

  • He gained friends elsewhere, and finally settled in Darmstadt, where he still found women's hearts susceptible, in spite of his small, weak frame, his great long neck, and his calfless legs, of which he writes: "And, oh, my calves, they might have done honour to a poodle!"1903, Rupert Hughes, chapter XV, in The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume I:

calfless

adj

Etymology From Middle English calflees; equivalent to calf (“young cow”) + -less.

1

Without a calf, or young cow.

  • a calfless cow

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