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pealess en · ADJ

Etymology

From pea + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without peas.
    • a pealess soup
    • It took four years, lots of time, and lots of money, but eventually they developed a pealess whistle with a higher pitch than the old whistle. 1988, John Feinstein, A season inside: one year in college basketball:
    • Foxcroft, who invented the pealess whistle and heads the Fox 40, the company that makes it, said that any hockey club owned by Balsillie would be a similar partnership. 2009 May 10, Ian Austen, “BlackBerry Billionaire Has the N.H.L. Buzzing”, in New York Times: