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Etymology

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard +‎ -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

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beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

  1. Lacking a beard.
    Synonym: smooth-faced
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
      A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.
    • 1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13:
      Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.
  2. (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
    • 1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:
      shall a beardless boy,
      Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
      And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
      Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
      And find no check?
  3. Lacking an awn.
    beardless wheat
  4. (ornithology) Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

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