cageful

cageful noun: that which can fit into a cage.

Noun

cageful (plural cagefuls or cagesful)

That which can fit into a cage.
- Although all you see are English faces, and you hear no other language but English spoken, yet you soon become aware that you are in a country very different from England, by the number of parrots and other birds of strange note and plumage which you observe hanging at so many doors, and cagesful...1827 August 4, “Two Years in New South Wales: […]. By P. Cunningham, […].”, in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 550, London: […] James Moyes, […], page...
- The Cossacks chattered and screamed, like a cageful of parrots stirred up by some mischievous boy […]1858 July, Perry Collins, “Explorations of the Amoor River”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume 17, number 98, page 229

“[…] I should say she’s as safe as a canary in a cageful of cats.”1930, Talbot Mundy, chapter 14, in Black Light, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill:
I looked at a cageful of monkeys and suddenly I saw all the mean and cruel and utterly unexplainable things I’ve seen and heard and read about in the time I’ve been with my own people […]1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 29, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 299:

plural	cagefuls
plural	cagesful

From cage + -ful.

What does cageful mean?: Cageful means that which can fit into a cage.
How do you use cageful in a sentence?: “[…] I should say she’s as safe as a canary in a cageful of cats.”
What part of speech is cageful?: Cageful is a noun.
What is the plural of cageful?: The plural of cageful is cagefuls.

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