English

Adjective

foodless ‎(not comparable)

1. 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, Down and Out in Paris and London, Chapter 3,

     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.

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