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counterful

counterful noun: enough to fill a counter.

Noun

counterful (plural counterfuls or countersful)

  1. Enough to fill a counter.
    • It was quite different from the gay but cheap cups and saucers which he had picked up at a five-and-ten-cent store, with infinite care, to find a single good design among counterfuls of trash.1942, The Menorah Journal, page 219
    • It was too easy to blame the retailers for bringing Christmas into disrepute with countersful of “trashy things that no buyer in his senses would at any other time of the year even glance at.”2000, Karal Ann Marling, “Thinking of You at Christmas”, in Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 305

Forms of counterful

pluralcounterfuls
pluralcountersful

Origin of counterful

From counter + -ful.

Questions about counterful

What does counterful mean?
Counterful means enough to fill a counter.
What part of speech is counterful?
Counterful is a noun.
What is the plural of counterful?
The plural of counterful is counterfuls.

Words near counterful in the dictionary

  1. counterfort
  2. counterforts
  3. counterfraud
  4. counterfugue
  5. counterfugues
  6. counterful
  7. counterfuls
  8. countergambit
  9. countergambits
  10. countergesture
  11. countergestures

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