英和和英

語源

hire +‎ -less

形容詞

hireless (not comparable)

1. Without recompense, payment or reward.
   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter X:

     "To cry the state of the political atmosphere,"—and so forth, I set off on a tour to the North, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me.

アナグラム

• Heislers, heirless, relishes