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pursefuls

pursefuls is the plural of purseful.

Meaning of purseful

Noun

purseful (plural pursefuls)

  1. As much as a purse can hold.
    • After claiming his prize the matador then retrieved his montera from the queen, who returned the hat along with a purseful of gold coins.1999, Rebecca Brandewyne, And Gold Was Ours, page 124

Questions about pursefuls

What is pursefuls the plural of?
Pursefuls is the plural of purseful.

Words near pursefuls in the dictionary

  1. purse-seining
  2. purse-string
  3. purse-string suture
  4. pursed
  5. purseful
  6. pursefuls
  7. Pursel
  8. purselane
  9. purselanes
  10. purseless
  11. purselike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pursefuls (page history and authors); purseful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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