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leapful en · ADJ

Etymology

From leap + -ful.

Meanings

1. Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.
   • Bony rocks jut up from the water, forming a haphazard, leapful path, a path that looks like a twisted spine, to the bluff on the other side. 2004, The South Dakota Review, page 55:
   • Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ; 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3, page 147:
   • O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay. 1954, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 30, page 530:

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