collarless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.
Example Sentences
- "Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them."
- "He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis."
- "The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]"
- "He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven."
- "I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog."
- "I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history."
Etymology
Etymology tree English collar Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English collarless From collar + -less.