boyless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

boy +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

boyless (not comparable)

  1. Without a boy or boys.
    • 1912, Charles Tenney Jackson, The Midlanders, page 34:
      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.

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