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supperless en · ADJ

Etymology

From supper + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without supper.
    • He often went to bed supperless.
    • Nungi, hungry and weary, had come to a fireless and supperless hut, and, after fire-making, was busy preparing supper for himself and Woona - she sitting calmly watching him. 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 262:

Deriveds

supperlessness