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hamperless en · ADJ

Etymology

From hamper + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a hamper (basket of food, etc.).
    • September 1868, Oscar Wilde:, letter to his mother […] ye delight of two boys at ye hamper and the sorrow of ye hamperless boy.
    • For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages. 1980, The New Yorker (volume 56, part 4, page 26)