Dictionary

canful en · NOUN

Etymology

From can + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a can will hold.
   • Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. 1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking:

Forms

Translations (3)

nrf cannée (as much as a can will hold) · ga lán canna (as much as a can will hold) · ga lán ceaintín (as much as a can will hold)