birthdayless
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- (rare) Without a birthday, or with no celebration on that day.
- 1906, Grace Alexander, Judith:
- Correct methods of encouraging retiring suitors or of repelling unwelcome ones was information that its members could scarcely be supposed at their birthdayless ages to require.
- 1907, Florence Wilkinson, The silent door:
- She deserved additional glory in return for the many years when she had gone birthdayless and little girls like Enid and Geraldine had taunted her airily.
- 1976, Louisiana State University, Mathematics magazine:
- It turns out to be easier to focus on the birthdayless days.
- 2002, Sue Welford, Nicholas Fisk, The Shadow of August:
- She'd nearly had enough. She was ready to go home, forget all about it. Be the birthdayless, motherless Mattie Browne for the rest of her life.