beardless
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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”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)
- Lacking a beard.
- 1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13:
- Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.
- (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
- 1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:
- 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?
- Lacking an awn.
- beardless wheat
- (ornithology) Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
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Translations
without a beard
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not having reached manhood
lacking awn
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