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porchful

porchful noun: the amount that fills a porch.

Noun

porchful (plural porchfuls)

  1. The amount that fills a porch.
    • The march through the residential section of Pond street and Farragut avenue contained crowded intersections of onlookers with the middle of the blocks having porchfuls of interested persons.1936 April 13, “Scouts’ Birthday Celebration Here a Big Success; Given a Royal Welcome by the Residents: […]”, in Serrill D. Detlefson, editor, The Bristol Courier, volume XXX, number 265, Bristol...
    • Well, tonight the kids are operating on a ghost-to-ghost hookup . . . going all out for tricks or treats, and we suppose it is best to put up with this mild form of blackmail and come across. At least we get to see the spooks, goblins and witches which are roaming the city and that in itself is...1948 October 30, Ed[ward] Mulligan, “Mulligan’s Stew: A weekly summary of Views and News of Mason County Merchants”, in The Ludington Daily News, volume 58, number 305, Ludington, Mich., →OCLC, page...

Examples of porchful in a sentence

  • Personally, we would rather shudder at the porchful of assorted “characters” than shout at the alleysful of property wreckers.1948 October 30, Ed[ward] Mulligan, “Mulligan’s Stew: A weekly summary of Views and News of Mason County Merchants”, in The Ludington Daily...
  • Almost as bad at first had been the porchfuls of women who would let out peals of laughter as I passed.1985, Meredith Sue Willis, chapter 9, in Only Great Changes: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 158:

Forms of porchful

pluralporchfuls

Origin of porchful

From porch + -ful.

Questions about porchful

What does porchful mean?
Porchful means the amount that fills a porch.
How do you use porchful in a sentence?
Personally, we would rather shudder at the porchful of assorted “characters” than shout at the alleysful of property wreckers.
What part of speech is porchful?
Porchful is a noun.
What is the plural of porchful?
The plural of porchful is porchfuls.

Words near porchful in the dictionary

  1. porches
  2. porchetta
  3. porchettas
  4. Porcheville
  5. Porchfield
  6. porchful
  7. porchfuls
  8. Porchia
  9. Porchias
  10. porchless
  11. porchlessness

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