foodless
English
Etymology
From Middle English fodeles, equivalent to food + -less.
Adjective
foodless (not comparable)
- Lacking food.
- c. 1807, William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas in Blake: Complete Poems, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 321, lines 187-8,
- Why does the raven cry aloud & no eye pities her? / Why fall the sparrow & the robin in the foodless winter?
- 1933, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Down and Out in Paris and London:
- You have spent your last eighty centimes on half a litre of milk, and are boiling it over the spirit lamp. While it boils a bug runs down your forearm; you give the bug a flick with your nail, and it falls, plop! straight into the milk. There is nothing for it but to throw the milk away and go foodless.
- c. 1807, William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas in Blake: Complete Poems, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 321, lines 187-8,
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