boyless

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adjective

Without a boy or boys.

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Meanings

adjectiveboyless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a boy or boys.

    The yelps and kyoodles had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box.

    1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34

Origin

From boy + -less.

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Cite this entry
APA

boyless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyless

MLA

“boyless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyless. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boyless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boyless.

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