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  • adjective Without having eaten breakfast.

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Examples

  • They had come at a good bat up the slope and were a little out of breath; if they had anything to say they did not say it, but marched in the early awkwardness of unbreakfasted morning under the songs of the larks.

    To Let 2004

  • Oh, well, he thought, these might be fun for a change, so he stork-walked to the office on stilts that put his unbreakfasted mouth at fig level, higher than the ripe lemons that dangled from their branches like bare lightbulbs in a nineteenth-century shoe factory.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Oh, well, he thought, these might be fun for a change, so he stork-walked to the office on stilts that put his unbreakfasted mouth at fig level, higher than the ripe lemons that dangled from their branches like bare lightbulbs in a nineteenth-century shoe factory.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Mason would sail over to class with a great unbreakfasted hollow beneath his sweater, to pass freely and gloriously, and to forget the whole mess by the time he had finished his afternoon nap.

    Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University Will Irwin 1910

  • They had come at a good bat up the slope and were a little out of breath; if they had anything to say they did not say it, but marched in the early awkwardness of unbreakfasted morning under the songs of the larks.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • They had come at a good bat up the slope and were a little out of breath; if they had anything to say they did not say it, but marched in the early awkwardness of unbreakfasted morning under the songs of the larks.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • They had come at a good bat up the slope and were a little out of breath; if they had anything to say they did not say it, but marched in the early awkwardness of unbreakfasted morning under the songs of the larks.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • Unwashed and unbreakfasted, I rode towards Sedan, found the Emperor in an open carriage, with three aides-de-camp and three in attendance on horseback, halted on the road before Sedan.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Ah! I see you smile at my supposing a horseman unbreakfasted.

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • those are rap song lyricsI've gone back a few times to Mitsuwa Market, never specifically for the ramen at Tampopo, but always strategically planning my shopping for Japanese ingredients and undisputedly necessary novelties like a Choco Lotte Crunky bar around lunchtime, and of course, unbreakfasted so I have no other option.

    Tampopo - A Crunky Quickie at the Market 2006

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