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campful en · NOUN

Etymology

From camp + -ful.

Meanings

1. A quantity that fills a camp.
   • He pointed out that a campful of men alone in the woods can go a little loco sometimes. 2012, Kris Saknussemm, Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book, page 110:
   • As we came in to land, I had a fine view of the campfuls of 'volunteers' outside the city. I gather they're proving more of a nuisance than a blessing. 2014, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time:
   • However, there are a couple of campsful of Bulgarian refugees in Turkey and Americans who have visited them say the Turks treat the refugees well. 1949 March 25, Richard Kasischke, “Bulgaria Becomes Tightest Police State Outside Russia”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXXVIII, number 134, Kingston, N.Y., page nine:
   • I cannot bear to be carried in this plight, like a half-weaned infant, through your campful of grinning yokels. 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke:
   • Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton! 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

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