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packetful

packetful noun: enough to fill a packet.

Noun

packetful (plural packetfuls or packetsful)

  1. Enough to fill a packet.
    • Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing.[1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257
    • We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display.1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 279

Forms of packetful

pluralpacketfuls
pluralpacketsful

Origin of packetful

From packet + -ful.

Questions about packetful

What does packetful mean?
Packetful means enough to fill a packet.
What part of speech is packetful?
Packetful is a noun.
What is the plural of packetful?
The plural of packetful is packetfuls.

Words near packetful in the dictionary

  1. packet-boats
  2. packet-switched
  3. packetboat
  4. packetboats
  5. packeted
  6. packetful
  7. packetfuls
  8. packeth
  9. packeting
  10. packetisation
  11. packetisations

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