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drinkless en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English drinkeles, drynkeles, equivalent to drink + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a drink, without drinks.
    • In 1938-1939, while I may have been no better off in time than in 1954, I should at least have had the use of a Pullman car in which to obtain a meal, instead of having to spend over 2½ hr. on a foodless and drinkless journey of no more than 77½ miles. 1954 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 853-854:

Deriveds

drinklessness

Relateds

soft-drinkless

Translations (3)

zh 沒有飲料 (without a drink) · fi juomaton (without a drink) · zh 没有饮料 (without a drink)