morningful en · NOUN
Etymology
From morning + -ful.
Meanings
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Enough to last all morning.
A morningful of Dev's abstractions was not Miles's recipe for conviviality.
2007, Timothy McKisson Mennel, Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York:After two beers and a morningful of meetings, I was ready for a siesta, but when I got back to the Holiday Inn, I had to pass by the swimming pool on the way to my room, and there was Cissy lounging in a deck chair, applying suntan oil to her hard, flat belly.
2010, John M. Daniel, Swimming in the Deep End:I see morningfuls of sun, Fermenting sap inside the tree.
1978, The Romantist - Issues 1-5, page 26:She scoured a whole morningful of pots that day.
1924, Fannie Hurst, Lummox, page 28:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| morningfuls | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| morningsful | Number=Plur | lexicographic |