beardless

adj

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”).

inherited from *bardalaus✻ — “beardless”
inherited from beardlēas — “beardless”
inherited from berdles

Definitions

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
Not having reached puberty or manhood
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
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1. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

The neighborhood

neighborbeard
neighborbearded
neighborbeardedness
neighbordebeard
neighborunbeard

Derived

beardlessness

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