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Etymology

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whelp +‎ -less

Adjective

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whelpless (not comparable)

  1. Without, or deprived of, a whelp.
    • 1858, Jeremiah Clemens, Mustang Gray: A Romance, page 214:
      Yet, even as the pearly drops trickled to the earth, his whole frame was shaken by a passion more terrible than the rage of the whelpless tigress.