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busful

busful noun: an amount sufficient to fill a bus.

Noun

busful (plural busfuls or busesful)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a bus.
    • The trip was made Friday in two bouncing busesful, under the chaperonage and direction of Mr. CYRUS DANIEL.1946 April 7, “Campus Capers”, in The Nashville Tennessean, volume 39, number 326, Nashville, Tenn., page 9-B
    • Among the 50,000 were busesful from Coegnant, Caerau and Cwmdu Collieries in Maesteg and delegates from pits in the Afan and Garw Valleys.1953 October 23, “Angry Miners Threaten To ‘Down’ The Government”, in Glamorgan Advertiser, volume 33, number 1760, page 5

Examples of busful in a sentence

  • Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, […]1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 89:
  • I had a busful of fifth-grade students expecting a field trip.2012, Ronald Vaughan Morris, History and Imagination: Reenactments for Elementary Social Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 1:
  • Due to the arrival of a busful of Bavarian tourists, the noise in the hotel lobby was deafening.2013, Serge Quadruppani, The Sudden Disappearance of Worker Bees, Arcade Publishing (2013; original French novel published 2011)...

Forms of busful

pluralbusfuls
pluralbusesful

Origin of busful

From bus + -ful.

Questions about busful

What does busful mean?
Busful means an amount sufficient to fill a bus.
How do you use busful in a sentence?
Riding among an exhausted busful of Negroes going on to graveyard shifts all over the city, […]
What part of speech is busful?
Busful is a noun.
What is the plural of busful?
The plural of busful is busfuls.

Words near busful in the dictionary

  1. Busey
  2. Buseys
  3. busfare
  4. busfares
  5. Busfield
  6. busful
  7. busfuls
  8. busgirl
  9. busgirls
  10. bush
  11. Bush 41

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