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hamperless

adj

Etymology

From hamper + -less.

  1. derived from *hnappaz✻ — “cup, bowl”
  2. derived from *hnapp✻ — “cup, bowl, basin”
  3. derived from hanapier
  4. derived from hanaper
  5. inherited from hamper
  6. suffixed as hamperless — “hamper + less”

Definitions

  1. Without a hamper (basket of food, etc.).

    • September 1868, Oscar Wilde:, letter to his mother […] ye delight of two boys at ye hamper and the sorrow of ye hamperless boy.
    • For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages.

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