supperless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

supper +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

supperless (not comparable)

  1. Without supper.
    He often went to bed supperless.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 262:
      Nungi, hungry and weary, had come to a fireless and supperless hut, and, after fire-making, was busy preparing supper for himself and Woona - she sitting calmly watching him.