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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From calf (“back of the leg below the knee”) + -less.
Adjective
calfless (comparative more calfless, superlative most calfless)
- Having no or extremely reduced calves.
1903, Rupert Hughes, chapter XV, in The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume I:He gained friends elsewhere, and finally settled in Darmstadt, where he still found women's hearts susceptible, in spite of his small, weak frame, his great long neck, and his calfless legs, of which he writes: "And, oh, my calves, they might have done honour to a poodle!"
Quotations
Etymology 2
From Middle English calflees; equivalent to calf (“young cow”) + -less.
Adjective
calfless (not comparable)
- Without a calf, or young cow.
- a calfless cow