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jamful en · ADJ

Etymology

From jam + -ful.

Meanings

1. Full to capacity; jam-packed; chokka.
   • Regrettable you had so little time when you were here last, and the lab was so jamful (as usual). 1947 November 18, Edward Flanders Ricketts, Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; London: The University of Alabama Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 255:
   • YOUR BABY GETS SALLY’S OWN HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES… They’re big and plump and luscious—jamful of all the precious nourishment that scientific seed selection and careful growing could put into them. 1940 February 19, Life, page 58:
   • There was another pause, and then came a dozen open cars jamful with ruffians in large hats, covered with fire-arms. 1953, Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey, published 1986, page 280:
   • “He don’t sell cotton, mother—only books,” cried the eldest; “and oh! he’s got such a beautiful ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ jamful of pictures;[…]” 1886, [Thomas Dunn English], “The Coming of the Peddler”, in Jacob Schuyler’s Millions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 9:
   • Still, though Wyoming suffers some of the worst tourist mobs and some of the most jamful trails, large portions of the backcountry are as purely lonesome as can be found in the old forty-eight. 1998, Ira Spring, Harvey Manning, Vicky Spring, Hiking the Great Northwest: 55 Great Trails in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Northern California, British Columbia, and the Canadian Rockies, 2nd edition, The Mountaineers, →ISBN, page 21:
   • They were so sure of themselves, so alert, so jamful of ideas about character, motivation, sequences. 1957, Richard [Pike] Bissell, Say, Darling, page 66:
   • The place was jamful. 1919 March 22, Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division, The Naval & Military Press Ltd in association with Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, published 2012, →ISBN, page 529:

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