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paperful

paperful noun: enough to fill a paper.

Noun

paperful (plural paperfuls or papersful)

  1. Enough to fill a paper.
    • The parent had put pins by papersful, / Till she was like a frightful porcupine;[…]1895, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Melodramnation”, in Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 174
    • At various drugstores in such places as Purdy’s, Golden’s Bridge, Brewster, Croton Falls, Katonah and Mount Kisco, as well as Ridgefield, Scotts Corners, Pound Ridge and New Caanan, I bought about a ton of eye makeup, lipstick, powder, papersful of bobby pins, curlers (me! curlers!) and other tools...1965, Richard Gehman, The Had, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, page 162

Forms of paperful

pluralpaperfuls
pluralpapersful

Origin of paperful

From paper + -ful.

Questions about paperful

What does paperful mean?
Paperful means enough to fill a paper.
What part of speech is paperful?
Paperful is a noun.
What is the plural of paperful?
The plural of paperful is paperfuls.

Words near paperful in the dictionary

  1. paperer
  2. paperers
  3. paperflower
  4. paperflowers
  5. paperfolding
  6. paperful
  7. paperfuls
  8. papergirl
  9. papergirls
  10. papergram
  11. papergrams

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