watermelonless

watermelonless adjective: without watermelons.

Adjective

watermelonless (not comparable)

(rare) Without watermelons.
- The old court in Harrisonburg held during the summer was known as “watermelon court,” and much evidence remained after each session to prove it. One reference states, “The court was melonless because of a late spring frost.” Another fellow recalls the first Monday in August as being a popular court...1976, Nancy B. Hess, “County Crops”, in The Heartland: “Rockingham County”, Harrisonburg, Va.: Park View Press, →ISBN, page 70
- It’s Summer so I hum. Let bass slip around my runagate tongue. I have lived watermelonless. I have scorned my languorous youth.1999, Terrance Hayes, “Summer”, in Muscular Music, Chicago, Ill.: Tia Chucha Press, →ISBN, page 32

He, too, remembers the watermelonless court during that summer!1976, Nancy B. Hess, “County Crops”, in The Heartland: “Rockingham County”, Harrisonburg, Va.: Park View Press, →ISBN, page 70:
Flora.” Red was to wind up watermelonless in the U.S.2000, Frank F[urlong] Mathias, “Camp Black Hawk and Carlisle Christianity”, in The GI Generation: A Memoir, Lexington, Ky.: University...

From watermelon + -less.

What does watermelonless mean?: Watermelonless means without watermelons.
How do you use watermelonless in a sentence?: He, too, remembers the watermelonless court during that summer!
What part of speech is watermelonless?: Watermelonless is an adjective.

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