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lawnful en · NOUN

Etymology

From lawn + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a lawn.
   • There was the detritus of untold communes and utopias— from the celibate Shakers, who'd died out through lack of breeding, to the wholly licentious latter-day acidheads who'd left behind nothing but their fleas and half-finished macramé plant hangers and lawnsful of broken major appliances. 2014, Cornelia Read, The Crazy School, page 12:
   • The alarm clock ticked below her head, on the ground, serenading her with its tick, tick, tick, accompanied by some nearby frogs and a lawnful of crickets. 1986, Susan Marie, Never Bring Her Roses, page 72:
   • He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people. 1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:
   • We'll plant bulbs and things. A whole lawnful of daffodils. 2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman:
   • Very early on the morning President Kennedy was to take off for Vienna to meet with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev June 3 and 4, 1961, a lawnful of Kennedy siblings massed on the compound for a prebreakfast game. 2016, Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys' Early Years:

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