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  • adjective Without tea.

Etymologies

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tea +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • I thought these days things had moved on....tealess I saw M. on to the bus and then had a chilly ride home....

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

  • I thought these days things had moved on....tealess I saw M. on to the bus and then had a chilly ride home....

    Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Let us hope the man has been rewarded, and has never since known what it is to be tealess out-bush!

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • It was a dirty, weary little object that entered its home, at nightfall, by the unassuming aid of the scullery-window: and only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him.

    The Golden Age 1915

  • "But think of the Imp in bed, lying there, sleepless, tealess, and growing all the while as fast as he can."

    My Lady Caprice Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • It was a dirty, weary little object that entered its home, at nightfall, by the unassuming aid of the scullery-window: and only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him.

    The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895

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