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dustpanfuls

dustpanfuls is the plural of dustpanful.

Meaning of dustpanful

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...

Questions about dustpanfuls

What is dustpanfuls the plural of?
Dustpanfuls is the plural of dustpanful.

Words near dustpanfuls in the dictionary

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

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