innful en · NOUN
Etymology
From inn + -ful.
Meanings
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Enough to fill an inn.
His unsparing terminology would keep an innful of libel lawyers in funds today.
2006, Thomas Dormandy, “The age of the cathedrals”, in The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Mists of History), page 80:Nay, hotel-keepers might make up parties, or rather parcels, and send whole innfuls of guests as “goods.”
1846 August 8, “Railway Parcels”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume the nineteenth, number 945, London: Joseph Clayton, page 757:They would go straight to the Garden Room, amid the noise of an innful of diners, and hide in the hanging baskets.
1989, Joyce Gilmore, The Erwinna Witches and Other Stories, Carlton, →ISBN, page 18:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| innfuls | Number=Plur | lexicographic |