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cakeless

cakeless adjective: without cake.

Adjective

cakeless (not comparable)

  1. Without cake.
    • Paul disappeared, but in a very short time returned dejected, cakeless, chickenless.1887, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Bar Harbor days
    • 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...

Origin of cakeless

From cake + -less.

Words formed from cakeless

Questions about cakeless

What does cakeless mean?
Cakeless means without cake.
What part of speech is cakeless?
Cakeless is an adjective.

Words near cakeless in the dictionary

  1. cakehouse
  2. cakehouses
  3. cakeism
  4. cakeist
  5. cakeists
  6. cakeless
  7. cakelessness
  8. cakelet
  9. cakelets
  10. cakelette
  11. cakelettes

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