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wirelessless en · ADJ

Etymology

From wireless + -less.

Meanings

  1. (UK, humorous, not-comparable) Without a radio set.
    • I've been stranded, utterly abandoned, left wireless—rather, wirelessless. 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers:
    • She also reflected that a jumpy, wool-gathering wireless operator might cause less confusion ashore. But the fact remained that the yacht was wirelessless. 2022, William J. Locke, Ancestor Jorico:
    • We are wirelessless, or probably we should have enjoyed de la Mare's aperçu of Keats tonight. Quoted in: 2020, Carol Z. Rothkopf, Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967