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drainful

drainful noun: enough to fill a drain.

Noun

drainful (plural drainfuls or drainsful)

  1. Enough to fill a drain.
    • Stop wasting talent by the drainful.1961, The Modern Hospital - Volume 96, page 90
    • On certain nights, she gave us baths and then hair washes and then dessert, sort of side by side, however many could fit, we knelt at the edge of the tub after we had bathed, leaning over a drainful of suds, just as we had waited in that same huddle every Christmas morning at the top of the stairs...2012, Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, page 36

Forms of drainful

pluraldrainfuls
pluraldrainsful

Origin of drainful

From drain + -ful.

Questions about drainful

What does drainful mean?
Drainful means enough to fill a drain.
What part of speech is drainful?
Drainful is a noun.
What is the plural of drainful?
The plural of drainful is drainfuls.

Words near drainful in the dictionary

  1. draines
  2. drainest
  3. draineth
  4. drainfield
  5. drainfields
  6. drainful
  7. drainfuls
  8. drainhole
  9. drainholes
  10. draining
  11. draining away

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