shoulderful
shoulderful noun: as much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.
Noun
shoulderful (plural shoulderfuls or shouldersful)
- As much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.
- As he walks down the hall to meet a group of businessmen, this corporate secret service uses code ling and the phones' two-way radio feature to head off potential snafus, such as toilet paper trailing from his wing tips and "snow on the mountains" (a shoulderful of dandruff), while he's unaware in...1998, Brandweek - Volume 39, Issues 9-17
- Before I could give him a brisk lecture about how making an effort for an hour could help his career no end, a large man with two shouldersful of bags hoved into view.2008, Hester Browne, The Little Lady Agency in the Big Apple, page 214
- An amount that reaches as high as the shoulder.
- Sacramento River flowing circuitously below high crimson banks and a splendid view of America's only volcano (whose last eruption occurred as recently as 1914), rising steeply out of the level valley and hoisting a shoulderful of superb colors against the sky.1939, New Catholic World - Volume 148, page 416
- As much as a metaphoric shoulder can handle; a personal burden.
- Gent who was with her had a shoulderful of chips, for no apparent reason.1958, Stewart Sterling, Dead to the World, page 52
- The new regime allowed for an incredible latitude of flexibility but also an equal shoulderful of additional responsibility.2001, Bart Wheeler, Barn-Like Rome, page 142
Adjective
shoulderful (comparative more shoulderful, superlative most shoulderful)
- Filled as far as the shoulder (of a container)
- Having large, muscular shoulders.
- Small, dogged, shoulderful, they come headed America-ward.1930, Lucy Lockwood Hazard, In Search of America, page 572
- Golden brown shoulders bulge out of that sleeveless shirt in a way that's almost profane, like just sitting there, being all burly and shoulderful in front of a group of teenagers seems somehow inappropriate.2016, Daniel Jose Older, Midnight Taxi Tango
Examples of shoulderful in a sentence
- He could get a shoulderful of one-by-sixes off the lumber pile and carry them up to the cabin site.2015, David Margolis, Change Partners:
- She hefted two small packages, sighed with disgust, and shifted the lot in her arms, finding room for another shoulderful.2018, Steven Barnes, Streetlethal:
- With a shoulderful of medals, he returns home after nine years, ready to put down his guns and find some kind of normalcy.1989, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Crisis, page 12:
- Don't travel on it then, she was told in the boarding house, or you'll find yourself jammed in, breathing shoulderfuls of damp tweed.2012, Frances Osborne, Park Lane:
Forms of shoulderful
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shoulderfuls |
| plural | shouldersful |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more shoulderful |
| superlative | most shoulderful |
Origin of shoulderful
From shoulder + -ful.
Questions about shoulderful
- What does shoulderful mean?
- Shoulderful means as much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.
- How do you use shoulderful in a sentence?
- He could get a shoulderful of one-by-sixes off the lumber pile and carry them up to the cabin site.
- What part of speech is shoulderful?
- Shoulderful can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of shoulderful?
- The plural of shoulderful is shoulderfuls.
Words near shoulderful in the dictionary
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