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crawful

crawful noun: as much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.

Noun

crawful (plural crawfuls or crawsful)

  1. As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
    • 1. Working conditions awful. 2. Wages unlawful. 3. Moses got his crawful.1950, Texas State CIO Council, Proceedings of the Annual Convention
    • The senator forever "working on" getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...1993, Terrence Kilpatrick, Swimming Man Burning: A Rip-roaring Novel of the American West
  2. Enough to fill the craw.
    • Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.1960, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman - Volume 57, page 309
    • She gulped down a crawful of food and stalked off, trying to devise a way to outwit her pursuers.1973, Charlotte Stevenson, The Stevenson reference book, page 147

Examples of crawful in a sentence

  • It is this view of themselves and of white women that makes the preference of a black man for a white woman quite a crawful.2002, Dawn Keetley, John Pettegrew, Public Women, Public Words: 1960 to the present, page 76:
  • Would reckon you have had your crawful of this country by day or night."2010, Theodore V. Olsen, The Stalking Moon:
  • I climb onto a dangling steel cable upon which groggy cormorants roost digesting crawfuls of contaminated gizzard shad.2006, Jean Lamore, AKA, page 399:

Forms of crawful

pluralcrawfuls
pluralcrawsful

Origin of crawful

From craw + -ful.

Questions about crawful

What does crawful mean?
Crawful means as much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
How do you use crawful in a sentence?
It is this view of themselves and of white women that makes the preference of a black man for a white woman quite a crawful.
What part of speech is crawful?
Crawful is a noun.
What is the plural of crawful?
The plural of crawful is crawfuls.

Words near crawful in the dictionary

  1. crawfordite
  2. Crawfords
  3. Crawfordsville
  4. Crawfordville
  5. Crawforth
  6. crawful
  7. crawfuls
  8. Crawfurd
  9. crawing
  10. crawk
  11. crawked

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