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  • adjective Without straw.

Etymologies

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straw +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The highlight of this weirdness came tonight, not at the pub (for once) but a Chinese restaraut, where the (male) waiterbrought my Long-Suffering Husband and I two glasses of water: one strawless, for him, and one with straw, for me.

    2008 October 14 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • The highlight of this weirdness came tonight, not at the pub (for once) but a Chinese restaraut, where the (male) waiterbrought my Long-Suffering Husband and I two glasses of water: one strawless, for him, and one with straw, for me.

    2008 October « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • The highlight of this weirdness came tonight, not at the pub (for once) but a Chinese restaraut, where the (male) waiterbrought my Long-Suffering Husband and I two glasses of water: one strawless, for him, and one with straw, for me.

    Sexism of the Straw « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • Then he deftly spat the cigarette into a strawless portion of the floor, where it glowed for a few seconds before it went out.

    Holy Ireland 1921

  • There’s only two scenarios in which I’ve ever been served strawless: either the barman takes careful note of my straw-refusal and thereinafter learns although usually they go to put the straw in a second time,catch my expressionand whisk it out again, whoopsie!

    2008 October « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • There’s only two scenarios in which I’ve ever been served strawless: either the barman takes careful note of my straw-refusal and thereinafter learns although usually they go to put the straw in a second time,catch my expressionand whisk it out again, whoopsie!

    Sexism of the Straw « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • There’s only two scenarios in which I’ve ever been served strawless: either the barman takes careful note of my straw-refusal and thereinafter learns although usually they go to put the straw in a second time,catch my expressionand whisk it out again, whoopsie!

    2008 October 14 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

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