a. [f. SOAP sb.] Lacking soap; esp. unwashed, dirty.
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. Passion & Princ., vi. The washing-stand [was] soapless.
1828. Lytton, Pelham, II. xii. 120. The offered hand of his new friend … was of a marvellous dingy and soapless aspect.
1858. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), II. 16. Something more piteous almost than soapless poverty.
