chinful
chinful noun: an amount that covers the chin.
Noun
chinful (plural chinfuls or chinsful)
- An amount that covers the chin.
- They semi-roughed it near Dwyer, Ontario and came home with a deer, some tall tales about life in the wilds and four chinsful of whiskers.1960 October 13, “Social Agenda Shrinks; Storm Windows, Leaves Take Over”, in Arlington Heights Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.
- He had shoulder length brown hair, a speech defect and a chinful of pimples on the verge of bursting.1993, Dermot Bolger, The Picador book of Irish contemporary fiction, page 321
Adjective
chinful (comparative more chinful, superlative most chinful)
- Having a noticeable chin.
- The low-brow and square-face, The long Bartlett pear-face, The chinless and chinful, The grinless and sinful.1924, George Shepard Chappell, A Basket of Poses, page 104
- 'Flook' by Trog': note the classic representation of the chinless wonder and the chinful wonderess.1970, Bevis Hillier, Cartoons and caricatures, page 152
Examples of chinful in a sentence
- Out of the corner of my eye I notice a grizzled old black lady with a chinful of hair wistfully studying the phone in my hand and give her a thumbs-up sign that I'm almost through.1993, Grif Stockley, Probable Cause, →ISBN, page 23:
- Fred's eyes have creases round them and his face looks thinner, shadowed by a chinful of stubble, but he's undeniably good-looking.2013, Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd, The Boy Next Door, →ISBN, page 44:
- Now the Neely Masseys, and there are eight altogether, are adequately chinful people, but each one of them can catch rainwater in his ears without ever tilting his head.1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, →ISBN, page 176:
Forms of chinful
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chinfuls |
| plural | chinsful |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more chinful |
| superlative | most chinful |
Origin of chinful
From chin + -ful.
Questions about chinful
- What does chinful mean?
- Chinful means an amount that covers the chin.
- How do you use chinful in a sentence?
- Out of the corner of my eye I notice a grizzled old black lady with a chinful of hair wistfully studying the phone in my hand and give her a thumbs-up sign that I'm almost through.
- What part of speech is chinful?
- Chinful can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of chinful?
- The plural of chinful is chinfuls.
Words near chinful in the dictionary
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