"boyless" meaning in English

See boyless in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: From boy + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|boy|less}} boy + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} boyless (not comparable)
  1. Without a boy or boys. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: boylessness
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          "text": "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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