chickenless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

chicken +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

chickenless (not comparable)

  1. Without chickens or their meat.
    • 1999, Aldo Leopold, J. Baird Callicott, Eric T. Freyfogle, For the health of the land: previously unpublished essays and other writings:
      Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state.