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hourful

hourful noun: enough to last an hour.

Noun

hourful (plural hourfuls or hoursful)

  1. Enough to last an hour.
    • The silver tufts of grass have fed the air with hourfuls of mealy ferine smells and hot-backed buzzards, eagles and vultures must have chased their murderous shadows through the bush1966, David Gill, Men Without Evenings, page 34
    • Hills to the north and to the south shut in all the dampness and shut out hoursful of sun.1994, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mark I. West, Westward to a High Mountain: The Colorado Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson

Adjective

hourful (comparative more hourful, superlative most hourful)

  1. Full of hours; time-consuming.
    • And all I did was Moan and rise and moan And fall And pain away and break And slip In many hourful whiles.1927, The American Caravan, page 683
    • Angley then drifts into his hourful, mouthful extempore, accentuated with refrains of "cast the demon away with the power of the Lord."1981, The Diliman Review - Volume 29, page 74

Forms of hourful

Noun
pluralhourfuls
pluralhoursful
Adjective
comparativemore hourful
superlativemost hourful

Origin of hourful

From hour + -ful.

Questions about hourful

What does hourful mean?
Hourful means enough to last an hour.
What part of speech is hourful?
Hourful can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of hourful?
The plural of hourful is hourfuls.

Words near hourful in the dictionary

  1. houre
  2. hourelie
  3. hourer
  4. hourers
  5. houres
  6. hourful
  7. hourfuls
  8. hourglass
  9. hourglass corset
  10. hourglass corsets
  11. hourglass dolphin

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