publess

adj

publess

adj

Etymology From pub + -less.

1

Lacking a pub.

  • Except for the fact they were publess, the roads were very pleasant and wide.2010, James Gibney, This Is Not about Cycling in Japan, page 89:
  • The thankful status of this lovely, if publess, village is commemorated in a modest tablet in St Peter's Church, reached, rather unnervingly, via a sunken path between high banks densely packed with gravestones.2012, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country:
Derived terms
publessness

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