bodyful

bodyful adjective: full of body; rich or substantive.

Adjective

bodyful (comparative more bodyful, superlative most bodyful)

Full of body; rich or substantive.
- Penford Low DE and Penford Regular corn syrups make a confection smooth, firm and bodyful, with moderate sweetness, minimum hygroscopicity...recommended for hard candies and chewy confections.1962, Candy and Snack Industry - Volume 118, page 79
- From then on Freddie began to know the importance of clean, crisp playing, and developed a big round bodyful tone.1966, Edmond Souchon, The Second Line - Volumes 17-21, page 55
Focused on the body; sensual or physically grounded.
- It is time also to investigate the 'bodyful body' and the 'bodyful mind', i.e., the way the mind and our world of culture are shaped and constituted by the 'lived-body', i.e., culture as emergent objectification of bodily experience.1991, Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, Anthropologies of medicine
- Being real and whole and bodyful; turning pages, greeting women who are Hat and glossy, magazine-slim and dressed to kill budgets and men's eyes; breasts of a perfect no-size with hips to match; hands that spread wings and fly in colours like birds, and feet that perch and piont in heels and...1993, Ruth Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, Canadian Women's Issues: Volume I: Strong Voices, →ISBN, page 152

bodyful (plural bodyfuls or bodiesful)

As much as a body will hold.
- For a children's surgeon every case is a bodyful of riddles.1966, Soviet Life - Issues 112-123
- The British blood transfusion services dispense more than 163,250 entire bodiesful of blood every year.1976, Dick and Rose Girling, John and Jackie Runeckles, Rick and Deidre Sanders, Would You Believe It, Doctor?, Coronet Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 44

You'll come out with beautiful, bodyful hair.1971, TV Guide - Volume 19, page 27:
Wella Balsam Deep Conditioner, however, is oil-free, leaves hair bouncy and bodyful.1980, Cosmopolitan - Volume 189, page ix:
When Hunter went to Europe in 1927 she carried a bagful of know-how and a bodyful of nerve and verve.1988, Daphne Duval Harrison, Black pearls: blues queens of the 1920s, page 211:
Mothers have three natural advantages that particularly fit them for the task: a close blood tie, a bodyful of maternal hormones and a natural female inclination to empathy.2009, Sue Palmer, 21st Century Boys, →ISBN:

From body + -ful.

What does bodyful mean?: Bodyful means full of body; rich or substantive.
How do you use bodyful in a sentence?: You'll come out with beautiful, bodyful hair.
What part of speech is bodyful?: Bodyful can be an adjective or a noun.

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