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gigfuls

gigfuls is the plural of gigful.

Meaning of gigful

Noun

gigful (plural gigfuls)

  1. The number or quantity that can be held by a gig (rowboat or two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage).
    • Before the two large quarter-boats could be got ready for the ladies and the rest of us, in fact, we heard the gigful of writers and cadets beginning to pop away at everything they saw alive, out of sight of the ship […]1856, George Cupples, chapter 16, in The Green Hand, London: Sands, published 1878, page 219
  2. The number of songs that can be performed during a gig (performing engagement by a musician or musical group).
    • They had eight Guthrie songs now, and some more to make up the gigful.2007, Roddy Doyle, “The Deportees”, in The Deportees and Other Stories, New York: Viking, page 58

Questions about gigfuls

What is gigfuls the plural of?
Gigfuls is the plural of gigful.

Words near gigfuls in the dictionary

  1. Gigeresque
  2. gigeria
  3. gigerium
  4. Gigers
  5. gigful
  6. gigfuls
  7. Gigg
  8. gigged
  9. gigger
  10. giggers
  11. gigget

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