beardless

adj

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”).

1. Lacking a beard.

   “A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.”

   “Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.”

2. Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.

   “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. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).