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walletful

walletful noun: the quantity contained in a wallet.

Noun

walletful (plural walletfuls or walletsful)

  1. The quantity contained in a wallet.
    • I would have thee bring away with thee a Wallet-full of the Good thou shalt find, that thou mayst never more complain of being unhappy.1653, John Davies (translator), The Extravagant Shepherd by Charles Sorel, London: Thomas Heath, Book 10, p. 244
    • Ah, troubled human people, sweeping past, glad of the momentary level of the road, and with no leisure to linger, or to see how nature smiles out of her superior happiness at you and your walletful of cares!1859 April, “A Winter Journey”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 85, number 522, page 443

Examples of walletful in a sentence

  • […] when he won he did not go off with a walletful of his friends’ money.1922, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in Northwest!, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 4:
  • The elderly couple seated beside me […] have told me in an hour’s flight time all about their children and grandchildren in Cincinnati (with, of course, a walletful of visual aids) […]1969, Philip Roth, “In Exile”, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 244:
  • With $37 and a walletful of easily traced and therefore unusable credit and ATM cards.2002, James Robert Baker, Anarchy, Los Angeles: Alyson Books, Part 2, p. 159:

Forms of walletful

pluralwalletfuls
pluralwalletsful

Origin of walletful

From wallet + -ful.

Questions about walletful

What does walletful mean?
Walletful means the quantity contained in a wallet.
How do you use walletful in a sentence?
[…] when he won he did not go off with a walletful of his friends’ money.
What part of speech is walletful?
Walletful is a noun.
What is the plural of walletful?
The plural of walletful is walletfuls.

Words near walletful in the dictionary

  1. wallet names
  2. wallet, keys, phone
  3. walleted
  4. walleteer
  5. walleteers
  6. walletful
  7. walletfuls
  8. walletless
  9. walletlike
  10. wallets
  11. walletsful

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