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shoeful

shoeful noun: a quantity contained in or on a shoe.

Noun

shoeful (plural shoefuls or shoesful)

  1. A quantity contained in or on a shoe.
    • Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN
    • One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood.2018, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, →ISBN

Forms of shoeful

pluralshoefuls
pluralshoesful

Origin of shoeful

From shoe + -ful.

Questions about shoeful

What does shoeful mean?
Shoeful means a quantity contained in or on a shoe.
What part of speech is shoeful?
Shoeful is a noun.
What is the plural of shoeful?
The plural of shoeful is shoefuls.

Words near shoeful in the dictionary

  1. shoefie
  2. shoefies
  3. shoefiti
  4. shoeflies
  5. shoefly
  6. shoeful
  7. shoefuls
  8. shoegasm
  9. shoegasms
  10. shoegaze
  11. shoegazed

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