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boyless

boyless adjective: without a boy or boys.

Adjective

boyless (not comparable)

  1. Without 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 of boyless

From boy + -less.

Words formed from boyless

Questions about boyless

What does boyless mean?
Boyless means without a boy or boys.
What part of speech is boyless?
Boyless is an adjective.

Words near boyless in the dictionary

  1. boyleite
  2. Boylen
  3. Boylens
  4. boyles
  5. boylesque
  6. boyless
  7. boylessness
  8. Boylestone
  9. boylet
  10. boylets
  11. boylike

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