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paddockful

paddockful noun: as much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.

Noun

paddockful (plural paddockfuls or paddocksful)

  1. As much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.
    • “I hear this mare of yours is a clipper; but I shall see what metal she has in her before an hour’s over.”
      “I tell you the truth, man. It is hard to part with her. My girl, Lizzie, is fond of her, and she is fond of Lizzie, and I allow I’d sooner you’d take all the paddockful than her.”1872, anonymous, “Jingling Geordie” in All the Year Round, Christmas 1872, p. 19
    • […] that fellow (the chief), his two brothers, and about a paddockful of young Samoan bucks haven’t slept at all for this two weeks.1896, Louis Becke, “At a Kava-Drinking”, in The Ebbing of the Tide: South Sea Stories,, Philadelphia: Lippincott, page 67

Forms of paddockful

pluralpaddockfuls
pluralpaddocksful

Origin of paddockful

From paddock + -ful.

Questions about paddockful

What does paddockful mean?
Paddockful means as much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.
What part of speech is paddockful?
Paddockful is a noun.
What is the plural of paddockful?
The plural of paddockful is paddockfuls.

Words near paddockful in the dictionary

  1. paddock girls
  2. Paddock Wood
  3. paddock-stool
  4. paddock-stools
  5. paddocked
  6. paddockful
  7. paddockfuls
  8. paddocking
  9. paddocks
  10. paddocksful
  11. Paddon

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