hamperless

English

Etymology

From hamper +‎ -less.

Adjective

hamperless (not comparable)

1. Without a hamper (basket of food, etc.).
   • September 1868, Oscar Wilde:, letter to his mother

     […] ye delight of two boys at ye hamper and the sorrow of ye hamperless boy.

   • 1980, The New Yorker (volume 56, part 4, page 26)

     For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages.