Meaning of foodless | Babel Free

Definitions

Lacking food; without food.

not-comparable, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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?”

“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.”

“In 1938-1939, while I may have⟳ been no better off in time than in 1954, I should at least have⟳ had the use⟳ of a Pullman car in which to obtain⟳ a meal, instead of having to spend⟳ over 2½ hr. on a foodless and drinkless journey of no more than 77½ miles.”

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