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sleeveful

sleeveful noun: enough to fill a sleeve.

Noun

sleeveful (plural sleevefuls or sleevesful)

  1. Enough to fill a sleeve.
    • The pros are out strong with whole sleevesful of arguments and not a few stunts.1921 July 10, “Seeing Redlands in Five Minutes”, in San Bernardino Daily Sun, volume XLIX, number 132, San Bernardino, Calif., page eleven
    • Whole sleevesful of sly little tricks that work figure magic . . .1946 March 1, “Ben Simon & Sons: We’ve Something Up Our Sleeve!”, in Lincoln Evening Journal, Lincoln, Neb., page 9

Forms of sleeveful

pluralsleevefuls
pluralsleevesful

Origin of sleeveful

From sleeve + -ful.

Questions about sleeveful

What does sleeveful mean?
Sleeveful means enough to fill a sleeve.
What part of speech is sleeveful?
Sleeveful is a noun.
What is the plural of sleeveful?
The plural of sleeveful is sleevefuls.

Words near sleeveful in the dictionary

  1. sleeved
  2. sleeveen
  3. sleeveens
  4. sleeveface
  5. sleevefaces
  6. sleeveful
  7. sleevefuls
  8. sleevehand
  9. sleevehands
  10. sleeveholder
  11. sleeveholders

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