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canful

canful noun: as much as a can will hold.

Noun

canful (plural canfuls or cansful)

  1. As much as a can will hold.
    • Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking

Forms of canful

pluralcanfuls
pluralcansful

Origin of canful

From can + -ful.

Questions about canful

What does canful mean?
Canful means as much as a can will hold.
What part of speech is canful?
Canful is a noun.
What is the plural of canful?
The plural of canful is canfuls.

Words near canful in the dictionary

  1. Canfields
  2. Canfora
  3. Canforas
  4. canfosfamide
  5. Canfranc
  6. canful
  7. canfuls
  8. cang
  9. Cang-adieng
  10. Cang-agong
  11. Cang-alwang

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