Meanings
- not comparableWithout cake.
Paul disappeared, but in a very short time returned dejected, cakeless, chickenless.
1887, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Bar Harbor days1 more example
There are not enough eggs produced as yet in all of Michigan to supply the needs of our metropolis, so that we have to go out even so far as California for our hen food. We should be largely cakeless and omeletless without the refrigerator cars that rush the cackle starters to our daily tables.
1924, “Industry’s Dependence on the Railroads”, in John A. Russell, editor, Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record, volume 33, Detroit, Mich.: Manufacturer Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32, column 2
Origin
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