gatless

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adjective

careless, heedless

Scrabble 8

Meanings

adjectivegatless (comparative more gatless, superlative most gatless)

comparative more gatless · superlative most gatless

  1. dialectalcareless, heedless

    Well, she was that frightened, she’d always been such a gatless girl, that she didn’t so much as know how to spin, and what was she to do to-morrow with no one to come nigh her to help her?

    1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 3

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gatless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatless

MLA

“gatless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gatless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gatless.

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