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neighborhoodful en · NOUN

Etymology

From neighborhood + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a neighborhood.
   • A neighborhoodful of farmers would rave for ten years about how the grain-buyers skinned them; and they would be perfectly right; they were being skinned. 1914, Judson C. Welliver, “Co-operation is Not “Big Business””, in Farm and Fireside, volume XXXVII, Springfield, Ohio: The Crowell Publishing Company, page 29:
   • But, like Janet, you may not be able to stop until you've knitted a neighbourhoodful – they're quick to knit and a wonderful way to use up all your scraps of yarn. 2012 September 5, Jo Calvert, “Tiny knitted dolls for kids”, in Canadian Living:
   • THE Kewpies are giving a Christmas party, the best sort of party, to a whole neighborhoodful of poor children that the rich people forgot. 1911 November 22, “A whole lot of Christmas for 15 cents”, in Buffalo Evening News, volume LVIII, number 36, Buffalo, N.Y., page 14:
   • “But there is another whole world out there, the black middle class, people who are making ends meet, who are sending their children to college. Two professionals in the household. Providing. And you don’t have to hide behind a tree (looking for them) and say, ‘There goes one, there goes one.’ They come in neighborhoodsful.” 1986 February 26, Eric Kinkopf, quoting Robert Boyer, “Blacks in the middle: Not rich, not poor, but often overlooked”, in Detroit Free Press, volume 155, number 298, page 1B:

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