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shellful

shellful noun: enough to fill a shell.

Noun

shellful (plural shellfuls or shellsful)

  1. Enough to fill a shell.
    • "Coomara! And a mighty dacint sort of a name it is, too," cried Jack, taking another shellful: "here's, then, to your good health, Coomara, and may you live these fifty years."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 532

Forms of shellful

pluralshellfuls
pluralshellsful

Origin of shellful

From shell + -ful.

Questions about shellful

What does shellful mean?
Shellful means enough to fill a shell.
What part of speech is shellful?
Shellful is a noun.
What is the plural of shellful?
The plural of shellful is shellfuls.

Words near shellful in the dictionary

  1. shellfishery
  2. shellfishes
  3. shellfishing
  4. shellflower
  5. shellflowers
  6. shellful
  7. shellfuls
  8. Shellharbour
  9. shellheap
  10. shellheaps
  11. shellie

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