a. [f. TEA sb. + -LESS.] Without or destitute of tea; not having had one’s tea.
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 562. Day, pass’d, defrauded of its moistest meals, Breakfastless, milkless, tealess, soupless.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, lxiv. He … sat … rapt in wonder, tealess, and bread-and-butterless.
1858. Trollope, Dr. Thorne, xxx. There she waited till ten o’clock, tealess.
1902. Alan Dale, A Girl who Wrote, iv. 32. The cheerless little office on the seventh floor, into which Jack Childers, managing editor, had swept his newspaper chorus, looked as though it were tenanted by a tealess tea-party.
