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dustpanful

dustpanful noun: enough to fill a dustpan.

Noun

dustpanful (plural dustpanfuls or dustpansful)

  1. Enough to fill a dustpan.
    • If he have cunning and greed enough, the workhouse boy sent out to sweep an office may learn how to sweep money by the dustpan[-]ful out of his neighbours’ tills, may learn to be a famous “operator” in the money market, and to die in the blessed assurance that he is bequeathing a plum to his heirs.1862 October 18, “The Girl from the Workhouse”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. […], volume VIII, number 182, London: […] Messrs. Chapman and Hall, […], published...
    • The last nail was driven, the last dustpanful of litter removed to its home in the new dust-hole;[…]1876 July, Frank Barrett, “Maggie?”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume XIX, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], chapter XVII, page 113

Forms of dustpanful

pluraldustpanfuls
pluraldustpansful

Origin of dustpanful

From dustpan + -ful.

Questions about dustpanful

What does dustpanful mean?
Dustpanful means enough to fill a dustpan.
What part of speech is dustpanful?
Dustpanful is a noun.
What is the plural of dustpanful?
The plural of dustpanful is dustpanfuls.

Words near dustpanful in the dictionary

  1. dustout
  2. dustouts
  3. dustpan
  4. dustpan and brush
  5. dustpan and brushes
  6. dustpanful
  7. dustpanfuls
  8. dustpans
  9. dustpans and brushes
  10. dustpansful
  11. dustpeople

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