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stockingful

stockingful noun: the amount that can fit in a stocking.

Noun

stockingful (plural stockingfuls or stockingsful)

  1. the amount that can fit in a stocking
    • For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories
    • On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for...1993, Tom Flynn, The Trouble with Christmas, page 47

Forms of stockingful

pluralstockingfuls
pluralstockingsful

Origin of stockingful

From stocking + -ful.

Questions about stockingful

What does stockingful mean?
Stockingful means the amount that can fit in a stocking.
What part of speech is stockingful?
Stockingful is a noun.
What is the plural of stockingful?
The plural of stockingful is stockingfuls.

Words near stockingful in the dictionary

  1. stockinger
  2. stockingers
  3. stockingfeet
  4. stockingfoot
  5. Stockingford
  6. stockingful
  7. stockingfuls
  8. stockingless
  9. stockingmaker
  10. stockingmakers
  11. stockings

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