Meanings
alternative Australia Canada US donutless
- not comparableWithout doughnuts.
Steering by a hint of sun, and a hunch, raveled and doughnutless, I found that the other valley lay below, late afternoon; […]
1946, Frederic Brush, “[Short Reaches] Two Valleys”, in Walk the Long Years […], Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, →OCLC, page 882 more examples
In journeying through those uncivilized states where doughnuts are not known by sight, but only by reputation, one is hard put to it, as Bunyan would say. All doughnutless lands are Sloughs of Despond.
1931, Wallace Nutting, “Meeting Troubles”, in Photographic Art Secrets […], New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 111Movies being something you don’t just whip out in the middle of nowhere on the road to nowhere else, we assume that Reta and Kay have that same sort of useless feeling we have when we are doughnutless.
1982, “Group D ‘Combat Cooking’”, in Marjorie Lee Morgan, compiler, The Clubmobile—The Arc in the Storm, St. Petersburg, La.: Hazlett Printing and Publishing, →ISBN, part 2, page 140, column 2
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