Batless vs Bagless - What's the difference?
batless | bagless |
(rare) Without bats (the winged mammals).
* 1986 , John Sherry, Maggie's Farm
* 2010 , Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle (page 145)
Without a bag, or one's bag
* {{quote-book, year=1875, author=John Cordy Jeaffreson, title=A Book About Lawyers, chapter=, edition=
, passage='Old stagers' of the Home and Western Circuits, can recall how the juniors of their briefless and bagless days used to entertain the natives of Guildford and Exeter with Shakspearian performances. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=March 29, author=Vicki Quade, title=Munchkins, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=He walked off, bagless . }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 7, author=S.S. Fair, title=Vacuum Packed, work=New York Times
, passage=I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo. }}
As adjectives the difference between batless and bagless
is that batless is (rare) without bats (the winged mammals) while bagless is without a bag, or one's bag.batless
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(-)- He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...
- Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
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* * * *bagless
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