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pillowful

pillowful noun: enough to fill a pillow.

Noun

pillowful (plural pillowfuls or pillowsful)

  1. Enough to fill a pillow.
    • Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls.1936, Beverley Nichols, “Christ and War”, in The Fool Hath Said, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., page 221
    • If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons.1971, Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare: Verse and Prose, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 26

Forms of pillowful

pluralpillowfuls
pluralpillowsful

Origin of pillowful

From pillow + -ful.

Questions about pillowful

What does pillowful mean?
Pillowful means enough to fill a pillow.
What part of speech is pillowful?
Pillowful is a noun.
What is the plural of pillowful?
The plural of pillowful is pillowfuls.

Words near pillowful in the dictionary

  1. pillowcases
  2. pillowed
  3. Pillowell
  4. pillowest
  5. pilloweth
  6. pillowful
  7. pillowfuls
  8. pillowiness
  9. pillowing
  10. pillowings
  11. pillowless

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