adjective

sackless

sackless · more sackless · most sackless

Without a sackWithout a sack.

Meaning

2 senses

(not comparable)Without a sack.
(Northern England, archaic, poetic)Blameless, guiltless, innocent.

Origin

From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English saclēas (“free from c

From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English saclēas (“free from charge, innocent, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *sakalausaz (“free from accusation”), equivalent to sake + -less. Cognate with Danish sagesløs (“blameless”), Swedish saklös (“blamesless”), Icelandic saklaus (“innocent”), Faroese sakleysur (“unoffending, innocent”). More at sake, -less.

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