dinnerless

adj

Etymology

From dinner + -less.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from *disiūnō
  3. derived from disner
  4. inherited from dyner
  5. suffixed as dinnerless — “dinner + less

Definitions

  1. Without dinner.

    • So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.
    • Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA