pancakeless en · ADJ
Etymology
From pancake + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without pancakes.
At last in desperation Ezra fed him [the pig] the pancake batter. […] Captain Ellis left his pancakeless breakfast hurriedly, and went to piggy’s assistance.
1910 August, Clifford V. Gregory, “The Retirement of Capt. Ellis”, in E. E. Faville, editor, Successful Farming, Des Moines, Ia.: Successful Farming Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36, column 2:Pancake after pancake fell spluttering on the coals, and Andrée with consternation saw the batter in the bowl gradually disappearing while she still remained pancakeless.
1890 August 18, Frank Howard Howe, chapter IX, in Thy Name Is Woman (The Belford American Novel Series; 12), New York, N.Y.: Belford Company, →OCLC, page 95:Here is a book with a Southern locale which does not reek of magnolias and Florida Water; the houses are not all whitecolumned but modern to the latest builtin bed; an inference of ‘Suh’ does not begin each paragraph; the Negro maid is neither ‘Mammy’ nor a pancakeless Aunt Jemima.
1949 summer, Albert Paris Leary, “[centenary Reviews] The Midsummer Fires by James Aswell […]”, in Albert Paris Leary, editor, the centenary review, Shreveport, La.: The Venture Group at Centenary College of Louisiana, →OCLC, section IV, page 33: