beardless

Meaning

Adjective

  • Lacking a beard.
  • Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
  • Destitute of an awn.
  • Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

Origin

  • From Middle English berdles, from Old English beardlÄ“as, from Proto-Germanic *bardalausaz, equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles, Saterland Frisian boartloos, West Frisian burdleas, Dutch baardeloos, German Low German baartlos, German bartlos.

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