handkerchiefless

adjective

Without a handkerchief or handkerchieves.

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Meanings

adjectivehandkerchiefless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a handkerchief or handkerchieves.

    A sudden sneeze may soil the hands, especially of a handkerchiefless patient, two minutes after they are washed...

    1924, John Augustus Lapp, editor, The Nation's Health
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    The younger children were mere pocket-handkerchiefless brats, whose mission on earth seemed to be to get in the way and have their ears boxed...

    1862, Albany de Grenier Fonblanque, A tangled skein

    I saw a million handkerchiefless children. I saw hundreds of villages in which the community handkerchief, modern sanitation, was absolutely unknown.

    1916, Foreign Christian Missionary Society, The Missionary intelligencer

    ...she was brought up in California, and only came to England when her character was formed ; but I never expected to have a handkerchiefless friend.

    1922, Eliakim Littell, Robert S Littell, The Living Age

Origin

From handkerchief + -less.

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Chicago

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