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hairless

adj
/ˈhɛələs/UK/ˈhɛɹləs/US/ˈheːləs/

Etymology

From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

  1. inherited from here
  2. derived from *kes-✻ — “to scrape, comb”
  3. inherited from *hērą✻ — “hair”
  4. inherited from *hār✻
  5. inherited from hǣr
  6. inherited from her
  7. suffixed as hairless — “hair + -less”

Definitions

  1. Destitute of hair.

  2. Bald.

    • There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.

  3. An animal of a hairless breed.

    • Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy.

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Derived

hairlessly, hairlessness, macrohairless

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA